GALICH ALEXANDER (1918-1977), AUTOGRAPH Galich A.A., Isaev K.F. Na plotu [On the Raft]. Moscow: Iskusstvo, 1954. - 108 p.; 17x12.5 cm. - (Library of Film Drama). Edition of 15,000 copies.

In illustrated publisher's cover. Design by artist V. Bogatkina. In good condition. Tears and losses of fragments on the spine, minor stains. Author's autograph on the inside of the front cover: "To the dear Krikoryan family - in memory / Alexander Galich / 8/XII 76". Krikoryan Sergey Nersesovich (1925-2015) was the son of a White Army officer who emigrated from Russia at the end of the Civil War. Since the early 1960s, he lived in Switzerland and was a member of the Russian Circle at the University of Geneva. He actively followed the literary process and never missed an opportunity to meet writers who had left their homeland or visited from the Soviet Union. A bibliophile, he assembled an extensive library. This is the literary screenplay of the legendary film "Vernye druz'ya" (1954). It is known that Galich wrote the novella and later the film script for "Vernye druz'ya." K.F. Isaev (1907-1977), a recipient of Stalin Prizes, was needed as a heavyweight to navigate various authorities. The first book by Alexander Galich. This is one of the few publications by Alexander Galich during his lifetime in the USSR. In 1974, all of the author's books were confiscated from libraries and bookstores and destroyed, according to an order from Glavlit. Galich Alexander Arkadyevich (born Ginzburg; 1918-1977) was a poet, screenwriter, playwright, prose writer, and author and performer of his own songs. In the 1960s, a successful playwright and screenwriter began writing ballad songs that he performed with a guitar. Samizdat recordings made him one of the most popular underground bards. Galich was summoned for questioning by the KGB, no longer published, and expelled from the Union of Writers. In 1974, the poet was forced to emigrate. He died in Paris in 1977. Bibliography: Okhlopkov, p. 50.