GALICH YURI (real name: Georgy Ivanovich Goncharenko; 1877-1940), AUTOGRAPH
Lotto 328
400500
Orchid: Poems. [Riga: typ. A. Nitavskago, 1927]. - 190, [2] p .; 20x13.5 cm.
In an illustrated publishing cover. Minor fading on the cover. The gratuitous inscription of the author on the avantitul: «Dear Mikhail Nikolayevich Volkovich
Yuri Galich 1926».
The second edition of the first poetic collection of the author, with new poems.
Georgy Ivanovich Goncharenko (1877-1940) - General-Major of the General
Staff, journalist and publicist, poet and prose writer. Veteran of the First World
War and an active participant in the Civil War. After a call to the NKVD on December
12, 1940, he committed suicide. Volkovich Mikhail Nikolaevich (1889–
1959) - captain of the hussar Irkutsk regiment; participant of the First World War
and the Civil War. After emigration, in France, he worked as a taxi driver, then
as a dis hwasher in a restaurant.