Mikhail Nikolayevich TOUKHATCHEVSKI (1893-1937) and Adolphe - Lot 52

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Mikhail Nikolayevich TOUKHATCHEVSKI (1893-1937) and Adolphe - Lot 52
Mikhail Nikolayevich TOUKHATCHEVSKI (1893-1937) and Adolphe CHÉRON (1873-1951). Autograph manuscript signed by both, TarassBoulba, 1917-1943; 40-47 small leaves in-4, basane tan binding with gilded decoration. French translation of GOGOL's novel by the future Soviet marshal and deputy, then prisoners of war in Germany. Mikhail Tukhachevsky, officer in the Imperial Guard, second lieutenant in the Semionovsky regiment, was taken prisoner in 1916; after his escape, he rallied to the Bolshevik party and led the Fifth Red Army; promoted to Marshal (1935), he was executed in 1937 on Stalin's orders at the age of 44; literate, he published several works, including Les Problèmes de la stratégie contemporaine (1926). - Adolphe Chéron was a physical education teacher; a reserve captain wounded in Champagne, he spent 39 months in captivity; a deputy for the Seine, he was Under-Secretary of State for Physical Education. Both were prisoners of war, held at Ingolstadt fort and Sczuczyn reprisal camp, along with a certain Charles de Gaulle. The manuscript of this translation of Gogol's novel TarassBoulba (the first 3 chapters, out of 12) was written in a lined notebook. On the left-hand pages, Tukhachevsky's manuscript in pencil, begun on July 1, 1917; on the right-hand pages (numbered 1 to 46), Adolphe Chéron's cleanup in ink, completed in September 1943. At the head of the volume, on 40 slightly smaller leaves, Adolphe Chéron has continuously recopied the text, specifying the circumstances of this translation "begun on July 1, 1917, during their internment as prisoners of war in Fort IX, Ingolstadt, interrupted on August 16, 1917, day of Michel Nicolas Toukhatchewsky's escape", with a tribute to his fellow Russian officers whose captivity he shared in the Heidelberg camp (October 1915-March 1916) and then in Ingolstadt (October 1916-December 1917), and the memory of his Russian orderly "in the Shchuchin [Sczuczyn] reprisal camp (March-October 1916)".
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