According to the auction house website, Pushkin’s work was sold for $ 153 thousand, and Mandelstam’s collection of poems went under the hammer for $ 226 thousand.
In total, 188 works were presented at the auction under the title “Russia: outstanding books and manuscripts”. Among them are the works of writers Nikolai Gogol, Ivan Krylov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, as well as scientific works of Nikolai Lobachevsky.
The total sales revenue amounted to $ 2.7 million.
In July it was reported that the first edition of Alexander Pushkin’s novel “Eugene Onegin” was sold at Christie's in London for £ 467.2 thousand - almost four times higher than the lower estimate.