![PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). 'Mednyi vsadnik, Peterburgskaia povest' [The Bronze Horseman, a Petersburg Tale], extracted from Sovremennik, literaturnyi zhurnal, vol. 6, part 1, pp.1-20. St Petersburg: 1837.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2018/CKS/2018_CKS_17162_0028_000(pushkin_alexander_mednyi_vsadnik_peterburgskaia_povest_the_bronze_hors104032).jpg?w=1)
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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837). 'Mednyi vsadnik, Peterburgskaia povest' [The Bronze Horseman, a Petersburg Tale], extracted from Sovremennik, literaturnyi zhurnal, vol. 6, part 1, pp.1-20. St Petersburg: 1837.
The first appearance of Pushkin's 'The Bronze Horseman' – 'the greatest work ever penned in Russian verse' (Mirsky). Pushkin wrote the poem in Bolodino in 1833, but was prevented from going to press by Tsar Nicholas I, Pushkin's personal censor at the time. Pushkin published an extract in the 1834 volume of Biblioteka dlia chteniia, but it was not published in full until it appeared in this issue of Sovremennik, the periodical that Pushin himself had founded, soon after his death. RBH and ABPC record only one copy having been offered at auction, also an extract (sold, Sotheby's, 4 December 2007, lot 104). Mirsky, Pushkin (New York: 1963), p.212.
Ten leaves, octavo (211 x 135mm). 20th-century Russian burgundy half leather. Provenance: Staraia kniga (bookseller's small pictorial label).
The first appearance of Pushkin's 'The Bronze Horseman' – 'the greatest work ever penned in Russian verse' (Mirsky). Pushkin wrote the poem in Bolodino in 1833, but was prevented from going to press by Tsar Nicholas I, Pushkin's personal censor at the time. Pushkin published an extract in the 1834 volume of Biblioteka dlia chteniia, but it was not published in full until it appeared in this issue of Sovremennik, the periodical that Pushin himself had founded, soon after his death. RBH and ABPC record only one copy having been offered at auction, also an extract (sold, Sotheby's, 4 December 2007, lot 104). Mirsky, Pushkin (New York: 1963), p.212.
Ten leaves, octavo (211 x 135mm). 20th-century Russian burgundy half leather. Provenance: Staraia kniga (bookseller's small pictorial label).
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