Photo by Scherer, Nabholz, and Co., Moscow, Russia, 1883
10.8 х 16.8 cm
Autographed on the back: “Aleksey Nikolaevich, tell me, does it look like me? Ho-ho-ho. Late April, 1883, Moscow.”
Petr Vasilievich SHUMAKHER (1817 – 1891) was a Russian satirical poet and parody writer. He was particularly known for an anonymous (but attributed to him) collection of explicit (or “intimate”) poetry entitiled “Between friends,” which was first published in Leipzig and Weimar, Germany, in 1883.
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