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Nikolai Semyonovich LESKOV (1831-1895) The Dazed...

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Nikolai Semyonovich LESKOV (1831-1895) The Dazed Painter Illustrations by Mstislav V. DOBOUJINSKI. Published by Aquilon, 1922. Edition of 1,500 copies. Format in-8°, 40 pages and 4 pages of illustrations. Slight moisture stain on upper left corner of front cover. Provenance: Paula Renée Nothafft (née Kaestlin), first wife of F.F. Nothafft, art lover and collector, researcher at the Hermitage and founder of the Aquilon publishing house. Paula Nothafft was made famous by painter B.M. Kustodiev's portrait of her; in 1923, she left Soviet Russia for Switzerland with her son Andrei, who would later become a major industrialist.