PUSHKIN IN LETTERS
[PUSHKIN, Aleksandr Sergeevich.] BRIUSOV, Valerii Iakovlevich (editor).
Pis’ma Pushkina i k Pushkinu. Novye materialy, sobrannye knigoizdatel’stvom ‘Skorpion’. Redaktsiia i primechaniia Valeriia Briusova [Letters from and to Pushkin. New material assembled by the ‘Scorpion’ press. Edited and with notes by Valery Bryusov].
Moscow, Press of the Society for the Distribution of Useful Books, 1903.
8vo, pp. viii, [2], 177, [7], with a final blank, four double-page facsimile letters, and several illustrations in the text reproducing drawings by Pushkin; a very good copy in contemporary blue cloth, the original pale blue printed paper wrappers bound in; signature and library stamps of Mikhail Alekseevich Naumov, bookplate of A. Levant.
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Pis’ma Pushkina i k Pushkinu. Novye materialy, sobrannye knigoizdatel’stvom ‘Skorpion’. Redaktsiia i primechaniia Valeriia Briusova [Letters from and to Pushkin. New material assembled by the ‘Scorpion’ press. Edited and with notes by Valery Bryusov].
First edition of this collection of Pushkin’s correspondence, edited by the Symbolist poet and critic Valery Yakovlevich Bryusov (1873–1924); most of the contents are published from the original manuscripts.
Included are: five petitions and/or receipts written by Pushkin in an official capacity 1817-1824, from the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; eleven letters by Pushkin 1823-37, to Viazemsky, Mordvinov, etc.; forty-six items of official correspondence received by Pushkin from Baron Von Aderkas, Count Benkendorf, etc.; twenty-two items of private correspondence to Pushkin 1825-1837, including a letter by Kozlov on part two of Evgenii Onegin; and several from Baron Rosen, one with a poem; and a few small pieces from Pushkin’s notebooks 1832-3, including notes on Evgenii Onegin.
