Âook "Literary salons and circles. First half of the 19th century"
LOT #50023. Guidebook "Literary salons and circles., First half of the 19th century", 1930
Author: Nikolai Leontievich Brodsky, artistic design: I. F. Rerberg, year of publication - 1930. Publisher: Central Printing House of the NKVM. Academy "Moscow - Leningrad, order No. 32559. Pages - 595 pieces. Circulation - 5000 copies. Format: 175 x 123 x 30 mm. Hardcover, black and white edition. Available: damage to several pages, library stamps "Library of the Odessa State Pedagogical Institute"., "Regional Igokultorg. Second-hand bookstore. Odessa 1944".
The book tells about the cultural and literary life of Russia in the first half of the 19th century. It describes various literary societies in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Arzamas and other cities, which served as important centers for authors and their audiences, places for exchanging opinions, reading new works and exchanging jokes and epigrams, and gives an idea of the role of such salons as key sources of cultural life at that time.