- Lot 1
Anna Akhmatova (pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
A poem written to save her son. 1949
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 18,750Closed - Lot 2
Anna Akhmatova (pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
An inscribed photograph. 1960
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 3
Anna Akhmatova (pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
An inscribed portrait. 1962
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 4
Anna Akhmatova (pen name of Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889-1966)
Signed photograph. 1962
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 4,000Closed - Lot 5
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927)
Appointing an agent in the US. 1922
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 125Closed - Lot 6
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (1878-1927)
Letter to Gippius on his determination to fight. n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 125Closed - Lot 7
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
A postcard from America. 1905
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 375Closed - Lot 8
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
A quotation on the eve of the February Revolution. 1917
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 9
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
A signed portrait. 1917
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 10
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
Two poems on religious themes. 1918
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 12
Konstantin Dmitriyevich Balmont (1867-1942)
17 signed poems. 1936
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 15
Andrey Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
Autograph poem, ‘Razvali’. 1916
EstimateGBP 2,200 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 16
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
Autograph poem, 'To Asya'. 1917
EstimateGBP 2,200 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 8,125Closed - Lot 17
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
Autograph poem, ‘Zhizn’. 1916
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 5,625Closed - Lot 18
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
A nervous breakdown. n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 19
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
An unpublished poem. 1932
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 20
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
On his timid and taciturn nature. 1933
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,000Closed - Lot 21
Andrei Bely (Boris Nikolaevich Bugaev, 1880-1934)
'I am not a "scribbler", nor a "causeur"'
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,750Closed - Lot 22
Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (1874-1948)
'Communism is dying of its contradictions'. 1927
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 23
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921)
Photograph signed. 1913
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 24
Alexander Alexandrovich Blok (1880-1921)
Autograph quotation, 'Ty – buynyy zov rogov prizyvnykh'. 1920
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 3,250Closed - Lot 25
Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873-1924)
Two late poems, 'Electron world' and 'Carousel'. 1922
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 26
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)
A biographical summary. 1927
EstimateGBP 20,000 - 30,000Price realisedGBP 37,500Closed - Lot 27
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov (1891-1940)
A signed photograph. 1927
EstimateGBP 15,000 - 20,000Price realisedGBP 32,500Closed - Lot 28
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
An 'overworked' Bunin in Capri. 1912
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 29
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Declining to attend a salon. 1913
EstimateGBP 600 - 900Price realisedGBP 1,000Closed - Lot 30
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Bunin asks Nikolai Klestov for a favour, c. 1915
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 31
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1935)
Asking for a copy of a published poem. 1917
EstimateGBP 600 - 900Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 32
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
On publishing Mitya's Love in France. 1925
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,500Closed - Lot 33
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
An untranslatably obscene epigram about the industrialist and publisher A.O. Gukasov. c.1928
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 34
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
An early letter to his great friend Roshchin. 1928
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,625Closed - Lot 35
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
‘Captain, Here I am sitting in Cannes, in a bistro…’. 1930
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 36
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
A pensive portrait. 1933
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 37
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
A donation for Vladislav Khodasevich. 1934
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 38
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
On Russian idioms in O durake Emelie. 1934
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 6,000Closed - Lot 39
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Signed photograph. 1936
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 40
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
On Cursed Days and The Liberation of Tolstoy. 1936
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,375Closed - Lot 41
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
'Fog, destroying certain parts of the male organism ...'. 1938
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 42
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Travel plans, perhaps to the United States. n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 250Closed - Lot 43
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953).
Joyful wartime poems to the young Olga Zhirova. c.1941
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 44
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Bunin laments the departure of Galina Kuznetsova. 1943
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 45
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
An epic depiction of the difficulties of the Bunin household. 1943
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 10,000Closed - Lot 46
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
'Too many Russians have changed with lightning speed'. 1944
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,750Closed - Lot 47
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Fury at Roshchin’s alignment with the Communists. 1944
EstimateGBP 3,000 - 5,000Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 48
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Working on his memoirs. 1945
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 49
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
'I love life very much!'. 1948
EstimateGBP 800 - 1,200Price realisedGBP 375Closed - Lot 50
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Sending his study of A.K. Tolstoy for publication. 1949
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 51
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
Notes for Bunin’s memoir on Chekhov. n.d.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 52
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
On an exchange with Georg Brandes. 1953
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 250Closed - Lot 53
Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin (1870-1953)
A signed photograph in the year of his death. 1953
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 54
Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia, known as 'Catherine the Great'
An exasperated letter to her former lover, Poniatowski. 1762
EstimateGBP 5,000 - 8,000Price realisedGBP 7,500Closed - Lot 55
Catherine II (1729-1796), Empress of Russia, known as 'Catherine the Great'
Inspecting the fleet at Kronstadt. 1764
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 56
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860-1904)
An inscribed photograph. 1899
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 16,250Closed - Lot 58
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
On publishing Russian writers in the West. 1921-22
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 125Closed - Lot 59
Ilya Grigoryevich Ehrenburg (1891-1967)
'Long live the Asturias'. 1934
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 125Closed - Lot 60
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Two early religious poems. 1902
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 6,875Closed - Lot 61
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Rejecting Kartashev's advances. 1904
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 62
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
An article on the Revolution. n.d.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 63
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Autograph poem, 'Klyuch' ('The key'). 1921
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 64
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Autograph poem, 'Rydatel'noye'. 1922
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,000Closed - Lot 65
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
A satire on emigrant literary circles in Paris. c.1922-24
EstimateGBP 2,200 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 5,250Closed - Lot 66
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Two letters to P.N. Milyukov. 1922-23.
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 67
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Characterisations in three words. n.d.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 4,375Closed - Lot 68
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Gippius’s memoir of Polyxena Solovyeva. 1928
EstimateGBP 8,000 - 12,000Price realisedGBP 11,875Closed - Lot 69
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
'Belgrade', a poem. [1928]
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 70
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
'Sisters', a poem. n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 2,000Closed - Lot 71
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
A meditation on exile and suffering. n.d.
EstimateGBP 2,000 - 3,000Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 72
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Autograph poem, 'Vernost''. n.d.
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 73
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Reflections on the 'mission' of the Jewish people. 1939
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 4,750Closed - Lot 74
Zinaida Nikolaevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Gippius’s lament for her husband. 1941/42
EstimateGBP 4,000 - 6,000Price realisedGBP 8,750Closed - Lot 75
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Autograph poem, ‘Posledniy krug’ (‘The last circle’). 1943-44
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 76
Zinaida Nikolayevna Gippius (1869-1945)
Draft of a poem addressed to V.A. Zlobin. 1944
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed - Lot 77
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Early photograph inscribed to Leonid Andreev. 1898
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 3,500Closed - Lot 78
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Can he make a copy of Vasentsov's 'Virgin and Child'? 1900
EstimateGBP 2,500 - 3,500Price realisedGBP 2,750Closed - Lot 79
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Gorky meets Tolstoy. 1900
EstimateGBP 10,000 - 15,000Price realisedGBP 10,625Closed - Lot 80
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
'Be steadfast in spirit'. 1905
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 5,000Closed - Lot 81
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Gorky in America. 1906
EstimateGBP 1,500 - 2,000Price realisedGBP 1,875Closed - Lot 83
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Proposing to sell the manuscript of Children of the Sun. 1905
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 1,500Closed - Lot 84
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
A postcard of the Bay of Naples. 1912
EstimateGBP 500 - 800Price realisedGBP 875Closed - Lot 85
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Requesting exemption from military service for Chukovsky and Zamyatin. 1919
EstimateGBP 1,800 - 2,500Price realisedGBP 2,375Closed - Lot 88
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
Disavowing 'apocryphal' interviews. 1921
EstimateGBP 700 - 1,000Price realisedGBP 875Closed - Lot 89
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
On the difficulties of Russian book publishing in exile. 1923
EstimateGBP 1,200 - 1,800Price realisedGBP 1,250Closed - Lot 90
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
A new address in Sorrento. 1924
EstimateGBP 500 - 700Price realisedGBP 625Closed - Lot 91
Maxim Gorky (Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, 1868-1936)
A furious letter to the publisher of his periodical, Beseda.
EstimateGBP 1,000 - 1,500Price realisedGBP 1,125Closed