Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (1894-1958)
'A funny story happened to me...'. n.d.
Autograph note signed to Grigory Vasilievich Alexandrov, n.p., n.d.

In Russian. One page, 110 x 180mm, address on verso.

'A funny story happened to me...'. Zoshchenko apologises for missing a meeting: 'A funny story happened to me (the landlady asked me to stay in the apartment until she came back and then left for five hours) ... '.

After a distinguished military career during the First World War and the Civil War, Zoshchenko gained a prominent position as a popular satirist in the 1920s and 1930s, being closely associated with the Serapion group of writers. He was denounced in the Zhdanov decree of 1946 and lived for much of his last decade in official obscurity. The recipient, the film director G.V. Alexandrov (1903-1983), was initially closely associated with Sergei Eisenstein, later embarking on a successful independent career which included the first Soviet musical, Vesyolye rebyata (Jolly Fellows, 1934).

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