![GRIBOEDOV -- BULGARIN, F. (ed.). Ruskaia Taliia. Podarok liuboteliam i liubitel'nitsam otechestvennogo teatra. [Russian Taliia. A Present for Lovers of National Theatre.] St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1825. 8° (145 x 110mm). Engraved additional title and 5 engraved portraits. (Some light marginal spotting, light soiling on the engraved title.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco spine label (corners rubbed). Provenance: Mikhail Dmitriev (initials stamped on the spine).](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2010/CSK/2010_CSK_05476_0365_000(griboedov_--_bulgarin_f_ruskaia_taliia_podarok_liuboteliam_i_liubiteln044749).jpg?w=1)
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GRIBOEDOV -- BULGARIN, F. (ed.). Ruskaia Taliia. Podarok liuboteliam i liubitel'nitsam otechestvennogo teatra. [Russian Taliia. A Present for Lovers of National Theatre.] St. Petersburg: N. Grech, 1825. 8° (145 x 110mm). Engraved additional title and 5 engraved portraits. (Some light marginal spotting, light soiling on the engraved title.) Contemporary half calf, red morocco spine label (corners rubbed). Provenance: Mikhail Dmitriev (initials stamped on the spine).
An excellent copy of the finest miscellany of Russian theatre in the age of Pushkin, including THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF GRIBOEDOV'S 'GORE OT UMA' ('Woe from Wit'): the only publication of any part of Griboedov's masterpiece during his lifetime. With engraved portraits of A. Shakhovskii, and the actors K. Semenova, V. Karatigin, A. Istomina, and K. Teleshova by Geitman. Mikhail Dmitriev was nephew of the fabulist Ivan Dmitriev. Bokarius, Guidebook for the National Pushkin Museum Library, p. 67; see also the catalogue 'Centenaire de Pouchkine. Exposition Pouchkine et son époque' which illustrates this title (pl. XV); Smirnov-Sokol'skii Al'manakhi 271 ('one of the best Russian miscellanies dedicated to the theatre').
An excellent copy of the finest miscellany of Russian theatre in the age of Pushkin, including THE FIRST APPEARANCE OF GRIBOEDOV'S 'GORE OT UMA' ('Woe from Wit'): the only publication of any part of Griboedov's masterpiece during his lifetime. With engraved portraits of A. Shakhovskii, and the actors K. Semenova, V. Karatigin, A. Istomina, and K. Teleshova by Geitman. Mikhail Dmitriev was nephew of the fabulist Ivan Dmitriev. Bokarius, Guidebook for the National Pushkin Museum Library, p. 67; see also the catalogue 'Centenaire de Pouchkine. Exposition Pouchkine et son époque' which illustrates this title (pl. XV); Smirnov-Sokol'skii Al'manakhi 271 ('one of the best Russian miscellanies dedicated to the theatre').