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PUSHKIN, Alexander (1799-1837) – Severnye Tsvety na 1827 god. [Northern Flowers, for the Year 1827.] St Petersburg: at the Press of the Department of Public Education, 1827.
The first edition; the Miloradovich copy. Northern Flowers is one of the most celebrated 19th-century Russian almanacs, edited by Pushkin's great friend Delvig. Contributions by Pushkin in this volume include the first appearance of two passages from part three of Evgenii Onegin ('Pismo Tat’iany', and the night-time conversation between Tatiana and her nanny), and two poems 'K ***', and '19 oktiabria'. 'K***' is among the best-known love poems in the Russian language; Pushkin wrote it for Anna Kern, with whom he had an affair in the summer of 1825. Ivask notes that Count Miloradovich's library comprised 16,000 volumes. Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 67.
Octavo (137 x 85mm). With the additional engraved title, portrait frontispiece, and two engraved plates (one of the engravings ['Vid kreposti Sv. Angela'] loosely inserted; the other engravings all trimmed to the plate mark and mounted on blanks; dampstaining in the last few gatherings, some soiling; final bifolium repaired in the inside margin); extra-illustrated with two engraved plates bound in. Later black half morocco by Shnell, spine gilt in compartments and reusing two gilt-lettered panels from an earlier binding. Provenance: Sofiia Fedorovna Ladomirskaia, née Gagarina (1794-c.1858) – Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich Miloradovich (1834-1905, soldier, stateman, historian; bookplate, inscription recording the gift from Gagarina) – V.I. Klochkov (St. Petersburg bookseller; label).
The first edition; the Miloradovich copy. Northern Flowers is one of the most celebrated 19th-century Russian almanacs, edited by Pushkin's great friend Delvig. Contributions by Pushkin in this volume include the first appearance of two passages from part three of Evgenii Onegin ('Pismo Tat’iany', and the night-time conversation between Tatiana and her nanny), and two poems 'K ***', and '19 oktiabria'. 'K***' is among the best-known love poems in the Russian language; Pushkin wrote it for Anna Kern, with whom he had an affair in the summer of 1825. Ivask notes that Count Miloradovich's library comprised 16,000 volumes. Smirnov-Sokol'skii, Pushkin, 67.
Octavo (137 x 85mm). With the additional engraved title, portrait frontispiece, and two engraved plates (one of the engravings ['Vid kreposti Sv. Angela'] loosely inserted; the other engravings all trimmed to the plate mark and mounted on blanks; dampstaining in the last few gatherings, some soiling; final bifolium repaired in the inside margin); extra-illustrated with two engraved plates bound in. Later black half morocco by Shnell, spine gilt in compartments and reusing two gilt-lettered panels from an earlier binding. Provenance: Sofiia Fedorovna Ladomirskaia, née Gagarina (1794-c.1858) – Count Grigorii Aleksandrovich Miloradovich (1834-1905, soldier, stateman, historian; bookplate, inscription recording the gift from Gagarina) – V.I. Klochkov (St. Petersburg bookseller; label).
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