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Lot 252
AN UNUSUAL PARCEL-GILT SILVER TEA AND COFFEE SERVICE
MARKED SAZIKOV WITH THE IMPERIAL WARRANT, MOSCOW, 1847
Closed5 June 2017
Price Realised
GBP 30,000
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Aleksei Suvorin (1834-1912) was a famous Russian newspaper and book publisher. Starting as a liberal journalist, he later became a publisher and editor of the most influential pre-Revolution conservative daily newspaper, New Times.
As a literary critic and a writer himself, Suvorin started his own theatrical company in 1895. A close friend of Anton Chekhov, Fedor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, their plays frequently premiered at his theatre. Suvorin was also the first to recognise Chekhov's genius, by publishing his first story in the New Times and subsequently supporting his writing.
For a comparable service by Sazikov from the Hermitage collection, see Z.Z. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, no. 165, and G. Von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 52, no. 24.
As a literary critic and a writer himself, Suvorin started his own theatrical company in 1895. A close friend of Anton Chekhov, Fedor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy, their plays frequently premiered at his theatre. Suvorin was also the first to recognise Chekhov's genius, by publishing his first story in the New Times and subsequently supporting his writing.
For a comparable service by Sazikov from the Hermitage collection, see Z.Z. Bernyakovich, Russian Silver Wares of the XVIIth - Beginning of the XXth Century in the State Hermitage Collection, Leningrad, 1977, no. 165, and G. Von Habsburg, Fabergé Imperial Craftsman and His World, London, 2000, p. 52, no. 24.