ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF M.Y. LERMONTOV: 1841–1941 ‘Maskarad’ Lermontova v teatral’nykh eskizakh A.Ya. Golovina ['Lermontov’s 'Masquerade' in Theatrical Designs by A.Ya. Golovin']; remainder by M.D. Belyaev, E.M. Berman, T.E. Grubert; edited by E.E. Lanceray. Moscow; Leningrad: Izd. Vserossiyskogo teatral’nogo obshchestva, 1941.

108, [4] pp.: ill., 71 plates; 25.5 × 19 cm. — (‘Trudy Gosudarstvennogo tsentral’nogo teatral’nogo muzeya im. A. Bakhrushina’). Limited to 5200 copies. Portraits of M.Yu. Lermontov, A.Ya. Golovin and 69 plates printed in colour collotype. Binding, endpapers, half-titles, headpieces and tailpieces after designs by E.E. Lanceray and I.A. Timofeev. Publisher’s illustrated full cloth binding. Good condition. Wear to the binding, minor bumps to the edges of the covers. Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin (1863–1930) was a Russian and Soviet artist, scenographer and decorator, a prominent member of the ‘Mir iskusstva’ group, and designer of interiors and furniture, as well as a full member of the Academy of Arts. Together with K.A. Korovin he contributed to the design of the Russian pavilion at the Paris World Exhibition of 1900 and the Metropol Hotel in Moscow. He worked extensively in theatre and in 1902 was invited to St Petersburg as chief artist of the Imperial Theatres. A production of Lermontov’s drama ‘Maskarad’ was planned for the centenary of the poet’s birth in 1914 at the Alexandrinsky Theatre with designs by Golovin, but the First World War prevented its realization. The production eventually took place on 25 February 1917. Golovin paid particular attention to costumes, hairstyles, interiors and decorative details, all of which are reflected in the artistic conception documented in this publication.