Two Documents-Autographs of G.R. Derzhavin from the Collection of N.P. Smirnov-Sokolsky
https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2017-14-4-490-497
Abstract
In the article, there are published for the first time two documents, which are autographs of the great Russian poet G.R. Derzhavin. They are stored in the Manuscripts Department of the Russian State Library, where they arrived in 1970 within the collection of the famous bibliophile of the Soviet time, variety artist N.P. Smirnov-Sokolsky. These documents are a part of the heritage of one of the classics of Russian literature, which determines their historical and cultural significance. The first of the documents is a bill for a thousand rubles, drawn by G.R. Derzhavin to the merchant D.V. Obraztsov in 1780. The second one is a letter to Prince Alexei Borisovich Kurakin, asking for assistance in a court case to I.Ya. Bludov, G.R. Derzhavin’s second cousin. This article proposes a new dating for the second document, indicates the place of these materials in the study of G.R. Derzhavin’s biography.
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Alexander Yu. Samarin
Russian State Library
Russian Federation
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Russian Federation
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Samarin A.Yu. Two Documents-Autographs of G.R. Derzhavin from the Collection of N.P. Smirnov-Sokolsky. Observatory of Culture. 2017;14(4):490-497. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.25281/2072-3156-2017-14-4-490-497
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