The article introduces into scientific circulation the correspondence in 1933-1934 of V.D. Bonch-Bruevich with Penza local historian S.K. Evgrafov about regional literary antiquities - in connection with the 132 formation of the funds of the nascent State literary Museum. Epistolary materials, on the one hand, are of local cultural interest; on the other - vividly and concretely reflect the first steps of the Soviet cultural elite in terms of museum centralization in Moscow printed rarities, documents, sources. The letters of S.K. Evgrafov, who as an informed and reliable assistant helped Moscow museum workers, reveal remarkable cultural and historical details of the era, supplement famous events and -plots? with curious details, contain references to the names of Russian writers, literary critics, researchers, public figures, publishers (in particular, V.A. Zhukovsky, V.G. Belinsky, F.I. Buslayev, K.V. Nesselrode, K.P. Pobedonostsev, M. Gorky, M.V. Sabashnikov, L.P. Grossman, G.A. Gukovsky, V.A. Manuilov and others). Unexpectedly, the personality of S.K. Evgrafov himself as a connoisseur of poetry is revealed - in connection with his plan for a large-scale anthology of works by Russian poets of the 18th - first third of the 20th centuries (over 700 authors and more than 2000 poems). The attempts of V.D. Bonch-Bruyevich to discover the archive and library of the Struisky family in Penza are of interest too, as well as materials related to the activities of Ruzayevskaya printing house of N.E. Struisky, one of the first private printing houses in Russia, which published nineteen books at the end of the 18th century, which became rarities
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