Frontispiece: ИНОСТРАННЫЕ МЕМУАРЫ Под общей редакцией | И. Т. Смилги | ОММЕР ДЕ ГЕЛЛЬ | «Academia» | Москва—Ленинград ||
Title page: ОММЕР ДЕ ГЕЛЛЬ | ПИСЬМА и ЗАПИСКИ | Редакция, вступительная статья и примечания| М. М. Чистяковой | ACADEMIA | 1933 ||
Title verso: Супер-обложка и переплет | по рисункам Н. П. Дмитревского ||
Pagination: [1-6] 7-464 [8], ill.
Collation: 8vo; [1]-298, 304 + 8 plates (photomechanical), one of them folded.
Binding: 17.5 x 13.5 cm, original purple cloth, white lettering to spine, vignette to front board, pictorial DJ.
Print run: 5300 copies.
Catalogue raisonné: Крылов-Кичатова (2004): № 564, p.236.
Вяземский, Павел Петрович (Russian, 1820 – 1888) – author.
A famous literary forgery and mystification in the history of Russian literature. The fictitious author – Оммер де Гелль – was an existing human being: Adèle Hommaire de Hell, née Hériot (French, 1819 — 1883), a French writier. The fictitious matter of the book was not proven before 1935. The details can be found here.
Additional Information
| Collection | Library , Literary forgery |
|---|---|
| Type / Purpose | Book |
| Period | 20 AD , Mid-20th Century |
| Country | Russia , USSR |
| Language | Russian |
| Media/Technique | Paper |
| Subject | Literary forgeries and mystifications , Literary forgery , Literature , Memoirs , Russia , Russian Empire , Russian books , Russian literature |
| Creation / Publishing year | 1933 |
| Edition | 1st edition, thus |
| Binding | Cloth , Dust jacket , Hardcover |
| Catalogue raisonne | Крылов-Кичатова (2004) |
| Acquisition year | 2019 |