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A Russian Folk Fairy Tale
VASILISA THE BEAUTIFUL
One of the most popular folk tales in the treasury of Russian fairy stories is about a merchant’s daughter and her trusty helper – a magical doll-amulet. Here the telling of this enchanting fable is augmented by hand-tinted lithographs, original calligraphy, insets and vignettes.
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Alexander Pushkin
THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE GOLDEN FISH
Translation by Julian Henry Lowenfeld
An edifying fairy tale by the great Russian writer in an English translation produced specially for this edition by Julian Henry Lowenfeld, an American and Russian poet, dramatist and composer, as well as one of the best translators of Pushkin’s works. The illustrations in the book are engravings made in the dry point technique by the gifted and original artist Boris Zabirokhin.
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Piotr Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
A bibliophilic edition of the ballet The Nutcracker, timed to marked the 20th anniversary of the legendary production of the ballet by the artist Mikhail Chemiakin. The book contains unique artistic-historical materials — a facsimile of a handwritten score of the ballet made by Tchaikovsky himself accompanied by sketches produced by the artist for the set-design of the production.
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Alexander Pushkin
THE ARISTOCRATIC PEASANT GIRL
A charming colourful book, filled with gentle irony, based on a series of drawings by the Saint Petersburg artist Alexander Voitsekhovsky that were inspired by the plot of a short story penned by the great Russian writer Alexander Pushkin in the genre of a comic sketch with elements of a love story.
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Piotr Tchaikovsky
SWAN LAKE
A unique joint project between the Rare Books from Saint Petersburg publishing house and Russia’s State Academic Bolshoi Theatre. The book contains facsimile extracts from a score of the ballet written in Tchaikovsky’s own hand that are illustrated with lithographs made in the rare sfumato technique.
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DIALOGUES
Russian and French poets of the late 19th and early 20th centuries in illustrations by the artist Alexei Kamensky
Dialogues is a publication with an unusual concept. It is designed as an alligat, a two-way book (from the Latin alligare – “to bind, attach”). Both sides are front covers. One leads to verses by famous Russian poets, the other to works by French poets, printed in the original language in both cases.
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THE FROG PRINCESS
A Russian folk fairy tale recorded by Alexander Afanasyev
One of the publishing house’s most colourful books was created in the style of 18th-century lubok (popular woodcut print) fairy tales. The lithe, springy “dancing” handwritten text is accompanied by illustrations that are free impulsive drawings created by the legendary Saint Petersburg graphic artists known collectively as G.A.V. Traugot.
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Tamara Bukovskaya
GIACOMERON
The book Giacomeron contains a cycle of poems by Tamara Bukovskaya, a poet, essayist, translator and full member of the Academy of Russian Verse, that was inspired by the autobiography of Giacomo Casanova (Histoire de ma vie, 1791–98).
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Sophocles
ANTIGONE
Antigone is a famous, splendid tragedy by Sophocles, the Athenian dramatist who was one of the greatest poets of Classical Antiquity. This edition is like a precious archaeological find on account of its artistic composition, the illustrations, the unique setting of the text and the skilfully made cover incorporating ceramic reliefs.
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