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True first Russian edition of Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.
When Doctor Zhivago was banned for printing in USSR, Boris Pasternak sold rights for the publication to Italian editor Feltrinelli. The further story is complicated and confusing. It was the cause of several monographs on the period of manuscript's travelling and the appearance of the first edition. Among them The washed Pasternak's novel by Ivan Tolstoy (Petersburg, Vremya, 2009, Russian edition) and Inside The Zhivago Storm by Paolo Mancosu (Milano: Feltrinelli, 2013).
The Central Intelligence Agency posted to its public website nearly hundred documents that clarified the CIA's role in publishing of this edition on April 2014.
According to these documents the CIA intervened because there was no Russian edition of the text that could serve as a formal obstacle to award the Nobel Prize to Pasternak.
Paolo Mancosu wrote about a stranger who came to Mouton with photostats of proofs of the typeset of this text in July, 1958. He ordered… Read More

Signed and inscribed by a Colombian novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize Laureate in Literature Gabriel Garcia Marquez: "I

One of 3,000 copies printed.
Nobel prize laureate Boris Pasternak's first prose book.
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Translation by B. Pasternak.
[Preface and comments by M. Morozov].
Signed and inscribed by the translator Boris Pasternak: "Komu vynetsia / tomu sbudetsia. / B Pasternak . 6 ianv. 1947 g. / Moskva". [Whoever pulls up it, will get it. B. Pasternak. January 6th, 1947. Moscow].
Most likely, this signed copy was a prize in some game. Third edition of Hamlet in Pasternak's translation.
Boris Pasternak (1890–1960), a Nobel laureate, translated eight of Shakespeare's plays into Russian: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, two parts of Henry IV, King Lear, and Macbeth. This was a way for him to work as a man of letters and avoid repression. His main goal as a translator was to make Shakespeare a Russian poet. In 1943, the British Embassy wrote a letter to Pasternak expressing gratitude for his work on the translations.
In 1939, Vsevolod Meyerhold requested Pasternak's translation of Hamlet for the Aleksandrinsky Theater. Following Meyerhold's arrest that year and the murder of his wife,… Read More

Signed and inscribed by the author: "Dorogomu Anatoliiu / Nikolaevichu Zhukovu - na / dobruiu pamiat' o nashem / peredelkinskom sosedstve. / Svetlana Aleksievich / 6.VIII.85 g. / g. Minsk." [To Anatoly Nikolaevich Zhukov – in fond memory of our neighborhood in Peredelkino. Svetlana Aleksievich. August 6th, 1985. Minsk]. First book edition. One of the first two books by Alexievich (both were published in 1985).
Belarusian journalist and writer Svetlana Alexievich (b. 1948), the Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (2015), signed this book to the Soviet writer Anatoliy Zhukov (1931-2013). Anatoliy Zhukov served as the chairman of the board of directors at Sovetskiy Pisatel' Publishing House in Moscow, where "The Unwomanly Face of War" was published in 1988. It's worth noting that Alexievich's recognition as a Nobel laureate marked a significant milestone as she became the first writer from Belarus to receive this prestigious award."The Unwomanly Face of War" stands as the inaugural work in Alexievich's… Read More

Rare samizdat edition of the verses and poem 'Gorbunov and Gorchakov' by Joseph Brodsky. The poem revolves around conversations between Gorbunov and Gorchakov, both of whom are depicted as patients in a mental asylum, resembling a prison-like environment. Brodsky composed this 'auto-therapeutic' poem, often referred to as 'long verses,' between 1965 and 1968. It stands as one of Brodsky's most extensive works, comprising 1,398 verses.
In 1963, at the age of 23, Brodsky was involuntarily admitted to the Kashchenko psychiatric clinic in Moscow and subsequently transferred to Psychiatric Hospital No. 2 ('Priazhka') in Leningrad. This was a result of compulsory treatment due to Brodsky's perceived 'social parasitism' and dissident activities. Following his release in March 1964, Brodsky was sentenced to exile.
The poem was first published in the book 'Ostanovka v pustyne' (Stop in the Desert; New York, 1970) and became available in Russia only in 1999. Its first English publication occurred in the book… Read More