About

Rare books, catalogues and curiosities on visual art — with a particular interest in Japan.

Anna Syrovatskaya

Anna has worked in the antiquarian trade since 2010 — first in the antiquarian department of Moskva, the landmark bookshop on Tverskaya Street in central Moscow, then cataloguing for Biblionne, and from 2016 at the Moscow auction house Twelfth Chair, where she went from leading specialist to auctioneer. She read for a specialist degree at the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, in the department of book history and the antiquarian-bibliophile trade, and stayed on for postgraduate work.

In the trade

She first exhibited at the London International Antiquarian Book Fair in 2015 and has shown regularly at fairs in Britain, Europe and the United States since, working with collectors and institutions on the international market. She works in Russian, English and Japanese.

Auctions

Between 2018 and 2022 she conducted sales at Twelfth Chair, among them the Tokarev family weapons archive, papers of Russian secret societies, the archive of the architect Ivan Zholtovsky, photographs by Alexander Rodchenko, a collection of rock samizdat, correspondence of Solzhenitsyn, material from the Tarkovsky archive, and autographs of Marina Tsvetaeva.

Japan

She first travelled to Japan in 2014 and studied the language at the Japanese Centre in Moscow. Since 2022 she has lectured on Japanese art and culture, and she collects Japanese prints herself.

Enquiries and valuations

If you have a question about a book, or something you would like valued — a single volume, a shelf, or an estate — go to Contact and leave your email. Anna will get back to you.

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