Auction 48 Part 1
The East is a delicate matter, Petrukha...
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Jun 20, 2020
3 Taras Shevchenko embankment, Russia
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LOT 38:
Khokhlov, G. T. Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the "Belovodskoe Kingdom" / pred. V. G. Korolenko.
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Khokhlov, G. T. Journey of the Ural Cossacks to the "Belovodskoe Kingdom" / pred. V. G. Korolenko.
Saint Petersburg: Tipo-lit. "Herald", 1903. 112 p. 26? 17.5 cm. In the publisher's cover. Loss of root fragments. The block is clean. On the last page of the seal: "Ministry of culture of the USSR. Allowed to export from the USSR".
The book is a travelogue of the Ural Cossack Grigory Timofeevich Khokhlov. In 1898, the Congress of Ural Cossacks-old believers decided to send an expedition in search of the mythical "Belovodsky Kingdom". The expedition lasted almost a year, and according to its results, the participant G. T. Khokhlov wrote a book based on his memoirs and travel records. The initiator of the publication was a Russian writer, journalist and publicist Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, who in the summer of 1900 visited the Ural army region and heard the story of this expedition.
Sales at Russian auctions: 14,000 rubles, 36,000 rubles.
