ILLYUSTRIROVANNAYA ROSSIYA [ILLUSTRATED RUSSIA] - CENTENARY OF A.S. PUSHKIN

1) A.S. Pushkin i ego epokha [A.S. Pushkin and His Era]: [special issue]. Paris: La Russie illustrée, 1937. 144, [4] pp.: ill.; 32 x 25 cm. In the publisher’s illustrated wrapper. In good condition. Minor rubbing, soiling, small tears to the spine and edges of the wrapper. This large special issue of ‘Illustrated Russia’ was based on the exhibition ‘Pushkin and His Era’ organised by S. Lifar. It contains articles and notes on the life and work of the great poet, facsimiles of Pushkin’s manuscripts and drawings, and reproductions of works by 19th- and 20th-century artists and sculptors (I. Aivazovsky, A. Benois, F. Bruni, M. Dobuzhinsky, D. Kardovsky, V. Tropinin, I. Levitan, C. Fabergé and others). 2) Illyustrirovannaya Rossiya. Pushkinskiy nomer: 1837-1937 [Illustrated Russia. Pushkin Issue: 1837-1937]. No. 7 (613), 1937. 28 pp.: ill.; 32 x 25 cm. In the publisher’s illustrated wrapper. In good condition. Minor soiling, small tears to the spine. The journal ‘Illustrated Russia’ was founded in Paris in 1924 by Miron Petrovich Mironov, on the model of the pre-revolutionary illustrated literary and artistic weeklies so familiar to Russian émigrés. From 1929 the journal had a free literary supplement, the ‘Library of the Best Russian and Foreign Writers’ (24 volumes a year). From the outset the leading writers and poets of the emigration published in its pages. It was printed on fine coated paper with elegantly designed covers, a number of them by well-known Russian artists - F.A. Malyavin, K.A. Korovin, D. Stelletsky, A.E. Yakovlev, B.V. Zvorykin, F. Rojankovsky, I.Ya. Bilibin, A.N. Benois and others.