Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (1894-1958)
Quotation from the story Lyubov. 1921
Autograph quotation from his short story Lyubov (Love) signed (‘Mikh. Zoshchenko’), and inscribed to Yakov Petrovich Grebenshchikov, n.p., 30 May 1921.

In Russian. One page, 135 x 210mm, on a bifolium extracted from an album.

… Smeshno. Pro zemlu skazem: shar I tak skachit vertitsia. A vot vozmet kto-nidud i skazet: a zemlia to I ne vertitsia, da i ne shar, da i … chert znaet, chto skazet. Tfu na vas! i ... Tut na vas! Tut vas na pofessora ustavilis, deskat znay nashih. Vot tak Grishka! Shirokiy paren'

…Funny. Let’s think about the earth, the earth has a rounded form and it spins. But somebody might say : the earth doesn’t have a rounded form and it doesn’t spin, and ... God knows what they might say. Here everyone stared at the professors: what a nation! What a man is Grishka! Wide boy!

A quotation from the satirical tale Lyubov. The quotation is slightly adapted from the published text of Zoshchenko’s characteristically satirical short story Lyubov, about the exploits of the newly-rich Grishka in the city. Yakov Petrovich Grebenshchikov (1887-1935) was a librarian and bibliophile, who worked at this date at the State Library.

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