Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Bunin asks Nikolai Klestov for a favour, c. 1915
Autograph postcard signed ('Iv. Bunin') to Nikolay Semyonovich Klestov (“Angarsky”), [postmarked Moscow, 4 January 1915].

In Russian. One page, 89 x 138mm.

Bunin asks Nikolai Klestov for a favour, requesting that their publishing company subscribe him to the bulletin of Kradievsky for a year.

Nikolai Klestov (1873-1941), who wrote under the pen-name “Angarsky”, was a communist writer and a revolutionary activist. Repeatedly arrested and exiled by the Tsarist regime in the decade after 1905, he went on to hold a number of official positions under the Soviet regime, including as trade representative in Lithuania (1929-31) and Greece (1932-36); he was arrested on charges of espionage in May 1940 and executed in the following year after a forced confession.

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