![REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Mini-archive of 7 autograph letters, signed, to the editor S.A. Belotsvetov, to the critic G.I. Gazdanov, to the bookseller I.R. Markov, and to friend Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich. [Various places, 1927-1941].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0168_001(remizov_aleksey_mikhailovich_mini-archive_of_7_autograph_letters_signe124129).jpg?w=1)
![REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Mini-archive of 7 autograph letters, signed, to the editor S.A. Belotsvetov, to the critic G.I. Gazdanov, to the bookseller I.R. Markov, and to friend Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich. [Various places, 1927-1941].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0168_002(remizov_aleksey_mikhailovich_mini-archive_of_7_autograph_letters_signe124151).jpg?w=1)
![REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Mini-archive of 7 autograph letters, signed, to the editor S.A. Belotsvetov, to the critic G.I. Gazdanov, to the bookseller I.R. Markov, and to friend Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich. [Various places, 1927-1941].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0168_003(remizov_aleksey_mikhailovich_mini-archive_of_7_autograph_letters_signe125604).jpg?w=1)
![REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Mini-archive of 7 autograph letters, signed, to the editor S.A. Belotsvetov, to the critic G.I. Gazdanov, to the bookseller I.R. Markov, and to friend Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich. [Various places, 1927-1941].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2019/CKS/2019_CKS_18466_0168_000(remizov_aleksey_mikhailovich_mini-archive_of_7_autograph_letters_signe124107).jpg?w=1)
細節
REMIZOV, Aleksey Mikhailovich (1877-1957). Mini-archive of 7 autograph letters, signed, to the editor S.A. Belotsvetov, to the critic G.I. Gazdanov, to the bookseller I.R. Markov, and to friend Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich. [Various places, 1927-1941].
Seven autograph letters in Remizov’s distinctive calligraphic hand, two with sketches, one with directions to an editor. The earliest letter, date Paris, 2 February 1927, is addressed to Sergei Alekseevich Belotsvetov, editor of the journal Perezvony (The Chimes) to which Remizov contributed. Remizov promises to send a story imminently; typically preoccupied with the visual presentation of his own work, he gives specific suggestions on how the text may be printed, ‘using two fonts’, and according to a layout which he carefully sketches in the letter; at the end he pleads that the editor may remember Remizov’s suggestion to publish a book of fairly tales about Russian women. The letter to the bookbinder and bookseller II'ia Rostislavovich Markov, dated Paris 26 December 1940, also contains a sketch, but this time a humorous one, portraying an eminently Remizovian ‘surrealist beast’ meant, probably, to embody the biting cold freezing the writer’s fingers as he wrote. Chronologically between those is the letter to the writer and fellow émigré, member of the ‘Paris Union of Russian Writers and Journalists’ Georgii lvanovich Gazdanov (1903-1971): a commiseration regarding Gazdanov’s new home, apparently exceptionally uncomfortable, and the hope for a better abode, closer to himself. Simplicity, immediacy and gratitude mark the four letters written in the two months between 8 November 1941 and 30 January 1942 to Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich, one of four sisters living near Remizov; the letters vividly convey the difficulties sustained by the writer and his ill wife, Serafima Pavlovna, with the young Nina and her sisters evidently looking after the couple, helping with the shopping and the medicines, selling items of Remizovs’ property to obtain cash or them, and even lending them money.
Seven sheets (266 x 210mm), letters on a single page each, penned in brown ink in Remizov’s hand with calligraphic flourishes, letters to Markov and Belotsvetov with Remizov’s sketches (lightly browned, creased where once folded).
Seven autograph letters in Remizov’s distinctive calligraphic hand, two with sketches, one with directions to an editor. The earliest letter, date Paris, 2 February 1927, is addressed to Sergei Alekseevich Belotsvetov, editor of the journal Perezvony (The Chimes) to which Remizov contributed. Remizov promises to send a story imminently; typically preoccupied with the visual presentation of his own work, he gives specific suggestions on how the text may be printed, ‘using two fonts’, and according to a layout which he carefully sketches in the letter; at the end he pleads that the editor may remember Remizov’s suggestion to publish a book of fairly tales about Russian women. The letter to the bookbinder and bookseller II'ia Rostislavovich Markov, dated Paris 26 December 1940, also contains a sketch, but this time a humorous one, portraying an eminently Remizovian ‘surrealist beast’ meant, probably, to embody the biting cold freezing the writer’s fingers as he wrote. Chronologically between those is the letter to the writer and fellow émigré, member of the ‘Paris Union of Russian Writers and Journalists’ Georgii lvanovich Gazdanov (1903-1971): a commiseration regarding Gazdanov’s new home, apparently exceptionally uncomfortable, and the hope for a better abode, closer to himself. Simplicity, immediacy and gratitude mark the four letters written in the two months between 8 November 1941 and 30 January 1942 to Nina Kazimirovna Statkevich, one of four sisters living near Remizov; the letters vividly convey the difficulties sustained by the writer and his ill wife, Serafima Pavlovna, with the young Nina and her sisters evidently looking after the couple, helping with the shopping and the medicines, selling items of Remizovs’ property to obtain cash or them, and even lending them money.
Seven sheets (266 x 210mm), letters on a single page each, penned in brown ink in Remizov’s hand with calligraphic flourishes, letters to Markov and Belotsvetov with Remizov’s sketches (lightly browned, creased where once folded).
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