Lot 201: HERMITAGE THEATRE -- SOMOV, Konstantin (1869-1939), Aleksandr GOLOVIN (1863-1930), and others. A collection of six programmes for performances at the Imperial Hermitage Theatre. St. Petersburg: N. Kadushin and others for the Imperial Hermitage

HERMITAGE THEATRE -- SOMOV, Konstantin (1869-1939), Aleksandr GOLOVIN (1863-1930), and others. A collection of six programmes for performances at the Imperial Hermitage Theatre. St. Petersburg: N. Kadushin and others for the Imperial Hermitage Theatre, 1900-1904.

6 printed pamphlets, 5 of these with chromolithographed covers, 3 designed by Somov and 1 by Golovin (occasional light marginal soiling), bound in a contemporary red cloth album, the upper board titled in gilt 'Predstavleniia v Teatre Ermitazha' (corners worn). Provenance: Paul M. Fekula.

A collection of programmes, THREE DESIGNED BY KONSTANTIN SOMOV, AND ONE DESIGNED BY ALEKSANDR GOLOVIN, for performances at the Imperial Hermitage Theatre. The productions include: Griboedov's Gore ot Uma (31 January 1902), Shakespeare's Hamlet (17 February 1900), Ostrovskii's Volki i Ovtsy (31 January 1903), Boito's Mefistofele (23 January 1904), and Turgenev's Zavtrak u predvoditelia (24 January 1900). Together with: an illustrated broadside, one side with a full-page lithograph by Mate after Repin and Ropet, for a performance at the Imperial Mariinskii Theatre in 1892 of Pushkin's Ruslan i Liudmila with music by Glinka (torn at the fold, short tears and light wear). Fekula 7198 (this group); Book Museum, Hermitage exhibition catalogue (St. Petersburg, 2002), p.90 (for the Somov-designed Turgenev programme). (2)

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