![TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Sochinenija grafa Tolstogo. T. 1: Detstvo, Otrochestvo, Junost’. [The Works of Count Tolstoy. Vol. 1: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth.] Moscow: Kushnerev & Co., 1893.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18441_0121_001(tolstoy_leo_sochinenija_grafa_tolstogo_t_1_detstvo_otrochestvo_junost_d6217215075328).jpg?w=1)
![TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Sochinenija grafa Tolstogo. T. 1: Detstvo, Otrochestvo, Junost’. [The Works of Count Tolstoy. Vol. 1: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth.] Moscow: Kushnerev & Co., 1893.](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18441_0121_000(tolstoy_leo_sochinenija_grafa_tolstogo_t_1_detstvo_otrochestvo_junost_d6217215105236).jpg?w=1)
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TOLSTOY, Leo (1828-1910). Sochinenija grafa Tolstogo. T. 1: Detstvo, Otrochestvo, Junost’. [The Works of Count Tolstoy. Vol. 1: Childhood, Boyhood, Youth.] Moscow: Kushnerev & Co., 1893.
Presentation copy, signed by Tolstoy, of his collected works (vol. 1), to Vladimir Andreevich Shchurovsky (1852-1941). A famous doctor in Moscow, he was the trusted physician of Chekhov and Tolstoy. In January of 1902, eleven months before this dedication was signed, Shchurovsky treated Tolstoy in Yalta of a nearly fatal infection. Composed between 1852 and 1856, whilst posted in the Caucasus with the army, these three short and very biographical novels received much praise and established him as a new promise of Russian literature (Bartlett). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1191; Letop. Gosud. Lit. Muzeja II, 279-330. R. Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, p.105.
3 parts in one volume, folio (262 x 175mm). With the two author portraits and the half-titles, loose picture of Tolstoy on horseback within (light dampstaining in first and last few quires, occasionally elsewhere, clean tear on p.91). Quarter olive calf, cloth boards, silk endpapers, spine and boards gilt (extremities scuffed, spine sunned). Provenance: Tolstoy’s presentation inscription to: - Vladimir Andreevich Shchurovsky (his initials gilt on upper cover) - stamp ‘M8’ (rear free endpaper).
Presentation copy, signed by Tolstoy, of his collected works (vol. 1), to Vladimir Andreevich Shchurovsky (1852-1941). A famous doctor in Moscow, he was the trusted physician of Chekhov and Tolstoy. In January of 1902, eleven months before this dedication was signed, Shchurovsky treated Tolstoy in Yalta of a nearly fatal infection. Composed between 1852 and 1856, whilst posted in the Caucasus with the army, these three short and very biographical novels received much praise and established him as a new promise of Russian literature (Bartlett). Smirnov-Sokol’skii, Moia biblioteka, 1191; Letop. Gosud. Lit. Muzeja II, 279-330. R. Bartlett, Tolstoy: A Russian Life, p.105.
3 parts in one volume, folio (262 x 175mm). With the two author portraits and the half-titles, loose picture of Tolstoy on horseback within (light dampstaining in first and last few quires, occasionally elsewhere, clean tear on p.91). Quarter olive calf, cloth boards, silk endpapers, spine and boards gilt (extremities scuffed, spine sunned). Provenance: Tolstoy’s presentation inscription to: - Vladimir Andreevich Shchurovsky (his initials gilt on upper cover) - stamp ‘M8’ (rear free endpaper).
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