KORSAC VENIAMIN (1884-1944) U belykh. Paris: [Author’s edition], Imp. “Pascal,” 1931.

Lot 736

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174 p.; 19.3x14.3 cm. In a printed publisher’s cover. The cover is worn, torn, and missing fragments of the spine; the cover is partially detached from the block; there are minor stains on the lower part of the spine at the beginning of the block. An autobiographical novel from the Civil War era. Dedicated to his wife, surgeon Nadezhda Alekseevna Dobrovolskaya-Zavadskaya (1878-1954). Veniamin Valerianovich Zavadsky (pseudonym V. Korsak; 1884-1944) was a writer and participant in World War I and the Civil War who emigrated to France. Member of A.M. Remizov’s Monkey Chamber (“Egyptian Plenipotentiary”). Freemason, member of Russian lodges of the Grand Orient of France.

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