Lot 17
Lot 17
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)

Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916

    Price Realised GBP 5,625
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    Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)

    Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916

    Price Realised GBP 5,625
    Price Realised GBP 5,625
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    Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
    Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916
    Autograph manuscript of the poem ‘Zhizn’ / Tanka’ (‘Life / Tanka’), Dornah, 1916.

    In Russian. One page, 189 x 140mm, on a bifolium, conjoined at foot, numbered ‘1’ and ‘35’ at head, emendations to the subtitle and date.

    Nad travoy motylek –
    Samoletnyy tsvetok …
    Tak i ya : v veter – smert’ –
    Nad soboy – stebel’kom –
    Prolechu motyl’kom.

    ‘A moth over the grass’: Bely’s meditation on the fragility of life, in the traditional Japanese form of a ‘tanka’.
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