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Mikhail Mikhailovich Zoshchenko (1894-1958)
Portrait signed. 1931
Portrait postcard signed ('Mikh. Zoshchenko' and again with initials on verso) and inscribed to Mikhail Mikhailovich Lyubimov, n.p., 22 October 1931.

Lithographed portrait after Georgy Vereisky, 1930. Inscribed in Russian on the image, with a further note on verso.

A signed portrait. Zoshchenko's note on the verso reads: 'I did not have a photograph to hand for Smena, so I am sending this drawing for you'.

Smena was an important literary magazine, founded in 1924.


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