On July 27, the Litfond Auction House will hold a sale of literary rarities, where one of the main lots is "Poems and Stories of Alexander Pushkin" in two parts (St. Petersburg, Military Printing House, 1835), one of the rarest editions of Alexander Pushkin's lifetime work, SIA reports with reference to Russian media.
Both parts were published in 1835, the first in April, and the second in August. The circulation was 1200 copies, both volumes were sold for 20 rubles. The book is accompanied by an engraved portrait of Pushkin made by the famous engraver Nikolai Utkin. In 1828, when releasing the second edition of "Ruslan and Lyudmila", the publisher Smirdin turned to him again. The portrait was sold separately for 2 rubles. According to the critic Smirnov-Sokolsky, it is completely impossible to obtain copies of "Poems and Stories" with portraits.
Almost all the works included in these two volumes were previously published as separate books: "Ruslan and Lyudmila", "Captive of the Caucasus", "Bakhchasaray Fountain", "Robber Brothers", "Gypsies", "Count Nulin" and "Poltava". Only "The House in Kolomna" (completed in October 1830) and "Angelo" (1833) were not published separately, although in 1833 and 1834 they appeared in Smirdin's Novoselye almanacs. But the fact that the edition did not contain innovations did not affect its popularity, on the contrary: it was more profitable for the reader to get "Poems and Stories" than to buy each work separately, since it was more expensive to buy the works separately.
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