MOSCOW, September 26 Records of the poet Joseph Brodsky, the archive of Professor Nikolai Pirogov and a fragment of the car in which Victor crashed Tsoi, will be put up for auction at the Literary Fund on September 28, the press service of the auction house reported.
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"The twenty-eighth of September Auction house "Literary Fund" will hold an auction of several sessions, during which it will exhibit historical and memorable rarities. For example, the personal audio archive of Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, a selection of letters from Professor Nikolai Pirogov and a preserved fragment of the dashboard of the car in which the leader of the Kino group crashed. Viktor Tsoi,” the message says.
An archive of 14 audio cassettes with recordings of Joseph Brodsky and his close associates in the 1978–1990s will be put up for auction for 900 thousand rubles, the Literary Fund noted. Among them is the poet reading his works. The earliest is dated March 6, 1978.
The next lot is five handwritten unpublished letters from the outstanding Russian surgeon, Professor Nikolai Pirogov, as well as his drawings and manuscripts of poems, dating from the period 1828-1830. The initial bid for the lot is 670 thousand rubles.
Part of the front panel of the Moskvich-2141 car, in which Viktor Tsoi died on August 15, 1990, will also be offered for 250 thousand rubles. It was kept by the first producer of the Kino group, author of books of aphorisms and director of the First League of KVN Yuri Belishkin. The artifact is also accompanied by a handwritten note from the producer with a story about how he came into possession of the spare part and why he decided to part with it by handing it over to the auction house, the press service added.