Letters, manuscripts, autographs, photographs and other memorial items associated with the name of Eduard Limonov are exhibited at the auction of the Literary Fund, which will take place on February 3. In total, more than 100 lots, representatives of the auction house told Izvestia on January 18.
A significant part of the materials is the archive of the artist Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Limonov and Bakhchinyan were born in Kharkov and were friends for a long time. It was Bakhchanyan who came up with the creative pseudonym “Limonov” for Eduard Savenko.
Most of the letters in envelopes are addressed to Dmitry Petrovich Savitsky (“for Edik”), with whom Limonov lived in the first years of his stay in Moscow, from 1967. It was through the efforts of Savitsky that Limonov’s poems were published for the first time in the USSR. Among other things, the auction features 10 letters to Limonov from his first wife, Anna Moiseevna Rubinshtein, dated 1970-1972.
According to the general director of the Literary Fund, Sergei Burmistrov, one of the most interesting manuscripts is Limonov’s dating scheme, which includes the names of leading representatives of the Soviet underground.
“It can be seen from the diagram that the first person Limonov began to communicate with, having arrived from Kharkov, was fellow countryman Vagrich Bakhchanyan (Bach). Bakhchanyan introduced Limonov to the artist Boris Zhutovsky. Then “fan” acquaintances began on the subject of tailoring trousers. As a result, contacts were established with about a hundred artists and poets (Moritz, Kabakov, Neizvestny, Voroshilov, Aleinikov, Pivovarov, Sapgir, Rabin, Kropivnitsky, Kholin, Kublanovskiy, Sidur, Brodsky, Krivulin, Levitansky, Bruni, etc.). The second page of the manuscript is a list of artists (36 names) and poets (28 names). Phone numbers are written against some of the names. It is interesting to note that the list of surnames on the first and second pages does not completely match (Gubanov, Zverev, Chukovsky, Tselkov, etc.). Many characters and dating history are described in Limonov’s essay “Moscow bohemia,” Sergei Burmistrov told Izvestia.
On December 10, it was reported that the first edition of Harry Potter was sold at auction for a record $471,000. At the same time, the starting price of the lot was $75,000. The publication dates back to 1997.
Source: IZ
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