BITOV ANDREI (1937-2018), AUTOGRAPH Vychitaniye zaytsa. [Subtracting the hare.] 1825. Moscow: Nezavisimaya Gazeta, 2001. - 367 pp.: ill.; 24x17 cm.

In publisher's binding, with an illustrated dust jacket. In good condition. Author's autograph on the first page next to A.S. Pushkin's facsimile: "To Tatiana + Sergei Krikoryans / Signature certified by personal photographer and sculptor AS / A. Bitov / March 1, 2004, Geneva, wind." Sergei Nersesovich Krikoryan (1925-2015) - an engineer-economist, son of a White Army officer who emigrated from Russia at the end of the Civil War. Since the early 1960s, he resided 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. Andrei Georgievich Bitov (1937-2018) - a Russian Soviet writer, poet, screenwriter, and educator. He was one of the founders of postmodernism in Russian literature and one of the creators of the uncensored almanac "Metropol."