A court case about an unpaid fee. 1936

Name: Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)
Brand: A court case about an unpaid fee. 1936
Price: 300.00 GBP
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Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)

A court case about an unpaid fee. 1936

Price Realised GBP 375

Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky (1866-1941)
A court case about an unpaid fee. 1936
Autograph letter signed ('D. Merezhkovsky') to Kvasnicka et Hampl, 11bis avenue du Colonel Bonnet, Paris XVI, 23 April 1936.

In Russian. One page, 270 x 207 mm, two ink stamps by recipient.

A court case about an unpaid fee, and mentioning Peter and Alexis and the Romance of Leonard da Vinci. Merezhkovsky asks his Czech publishers to represent his interests in court against Mme Kolova-Tushkova in the case of an unpaid fee for his article, mentioning that there is no written evidence of the size of the fee. Merezhkovsky writes that he will give more details about his novels Petr i Alexey (Peter and Alexis) and Voskrestchie Bogi. Leodardo da Vinci (Romance of Leonardo da Vinci) in a following letter.

Kolova-Tushkova was the publisher of the Centrum magazine in the 1920s and 1930s.

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