This article is a transcript of the report, delivered by the author on April 19, 2016 in Moscow Club of Bibliophiles (the publication follows the style of oral speech) about a unique artifact, i.e. memorial hand-written album of the Moscow Bookshop of Writers. The album, which is of obvious interest for historians of Russian literature, bibliophiles, specialists in books and book graphics and for all researchers of Soviet era, is thus introduced into scientific circulation. Containing a unique aesthetic meaning, the album sheds additional light on the mechanisms and operations of the so-calles “literary way of life” (as per B.M. Eikhenbaum’s concept) of the 1930s. In additions, the article includes a reproduction of all autographs, made in the album by Soviet authors, writers and scientists, some of whom were subjected to repressions (L.M. Leonov, Demyan Bedny, Vsevolod V. Ivanov, V.V. Ermilov, D.A. Ter-Simonyan, M.P. Galperin, V.A. Gilyarovsky, V.G. Lidin, V.A. Kaverin, G.O. Vinokur, N.S. Ashukin, N.D. Volkov, K.A. Bolshakov, A.N. Zuev). The fact that some of the autographs are written in poems allows to research them in the context of their creators’ poetic works. The authorship of several autographs could not be established; thus, the article creates the basis for their future attribution that remains quite possible. Moreover, the article is accompanied by illustrative materials: book signs and advertisements of the Bookshop of Writers, as well as the autographs of Demyan Bedny, V.A. Gilyarovsky, V.A. Kaverin, K.A. Bolshakov.
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