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A Russian bronze composition “Cossack riding a horse in pursuit”. Author E.A. Lanceray. Petersburg, the end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 28 x 18 cm.

Starting price: 1000€
Estimate: 1300-1800€

An unusual silvered bronze cigar cutter. Height 5 cm.

Starting price: 100€
Estimate: 100-150€

Dancing Peasant
Russian bronze composition
Mid-19th century
Height: 13 cm

This small bronze figure depicts a peasant caught mid-step in a lively dance, his posture animated and expressive. Works of this type reflected the 19th-century fascination with scenes from folk life, capturing the vitality and humor of rural traditions in miniature sculptural form.

Starting price: 500€
Estimate: 600-800€
Hammer Price: Not sold

Cossack on Horseback
Russia (Danzig [Gdańsk], then part of the Russian Empire), late 19th century
Wood, metal
Dimensions: 21.5 × 16 × 7 cm
Inscribed: “А. Ханыковъ. Данцигъ”

A finely carved wooden composition depicting a Cossack horseman, holding a lance and seated on a spirited mount. The sculpture bears a dedication to Alexander Vladimirovich Khanykov (1825–1853) — a noted Russian revolutionary and member of the Petrashevsky Circle, an intellectual and reformist movement in mid-19th century St. Petersburg.

Khanykov, a volunteer student at the St. Petersburg University, was an active participant in the philosophical and political circles of Mikhail Petrashevsky and Nikolai Kashkin. A passionate advocate of Charles Fourier’s socialist ideas, Khanykov delivered a public speech in memory of Fourier on April 7, 1849. That same year, he was arrested in connection with the Petrashevsky case, sentenced to death (later commuted to exile as a private in the Orenburg line battalions).

In exile, Khanykov initiated a secret Russo–Polish–Ukrainian circle, which likely included the poet Taras Shevchenko, also serving in Orenburg. Members of the group held political discussions, wrote satirical pamphlets against the imperial government, and circulated banned literature on economics, geography, and history. Khanykov also compiled a clandestine manuscript on world history praising popular sovereignty and the ideals of the French Revolution of 1789 and 1848, expressing sympathy for Christian socialism.

This wooden sculpture — created in Danzig (now Gdańsk) — appears to be a commemorative or symbolic representation of Khanykov’s revolutionary courage and his association with the frontier and Cossack imagery.

Starting price: 400€
Estimate: 500-600€
Hammer Price: UNSOLD€

A Russian neo renaissance style cast silver and glass inlay egg cup. Makers mark of Imperial Court supplier P. Ovchinnikov. Moscow, the end of the 19th century. Dimensions: 5.5 x 5.5 x 5.5 cm. Silver weight: 28 gr.

Starting price: 150€
Estimate: 150-250€

A Cast Iron Sculpture of Kirghiz on Horseback, Early 20th Century, Kusa, Russia. Signed by V. Torohin. Vasily Fedorovich Torokin, born in Kaslinsky, Ekaterinburg District, worked at the Kusinsky Ironworks from 1859. Starting as a sand preparation worker, he advanced to mold maker and sculptor. A self-taught artist, he studied sculpture under M.D. Kanaev and N.R. Bakh. Torokin created models inspired by sculptors like P.K. Klodt and N.I. Liberikh and developed original iron casting designs. Dimensions: 21 x 18.7 x 9.5 cm.

Starting price: 300€
Estimate: 400-500€

Russian cufflinks. Gold, diamonds (1.02 ct.), agates (11.96 ct.). Petersburg. AH and 56 marks.

Starting price: 2500€
Estimate: 3500-4000€

An Extremely Rare Russian self-portrait bronze bust of Stephan Dmitrievitch Erzia (Nefedov) (1876-1959) named “Toska” (melancholy). This bust is considered a prominent early artwork by Erzia. Stepan Erzia graduated from Moscow College of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. His teachers were S. Ivanov, Kasatkine, Pasternak, Volnuhine. In 1906 Erzia moved to Italy with his friend and colleague Daniello Tinelli. A few months later he spent all his money and had to apply for a factory job. On getting his first paycheck, Erzia bought some clay and made a clay head which He later called “Toska” (exhibited in Nice Museum, a bronze copy also belongs to Russian State museum in Saint-Petersburg). This self-portrait shows Stepan Erzia as a tired and hungry master. The work became a turning point for his future international fame. Dimensions: 29 x 26 x 13 cm. See Erzia’s similar bronze works: Sotheby’s, 01 Dec 2015 London, United Kingdom Russian Pictures Lot number 115 Female Bust, 1915 Sold 50000 GBP и Sotheby’s, 02 Jun 2015 London, United Kingdom Russian Pictures Lot number 76 Head of a Girl 28000 GBP.

Starting price: 18000€
Estimate: 20000-30000€