Moi drug Osip Mandel'shtam - Seslavinskii Mikhail Vadimovich

Mikhail Seslavinsky, a well-known Moscow bibliophile and head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, presents a lyrical essay about his acquaintance with the poetry and books of Osip Mandelstam in Gorky, Nizhny Novgorod, in the 1980s, simultaneously talking about the life of the provincial intelligentsia and the process of collecting a collection of books and autographs of the poet
. For the first time there is an extensive, richly illustrated collection of not only the poet's books, but also almanacs, newspapers and magazines with his lifetime publications from the author's collection. Each edition is accompanied by a brief annotation, given about the degree of rarity of a number of books and periodicals on the antique-book market.
Rare autographs of O.E. Mandelstam and those who were in his inner circle are published: A.A. Akhmatova, J.K. Baltrushaitis, Vasiliska Gnedov, S.M. Gorodetsky, N.Y. Mandelstam, I.G. Ehrenburg....