AN AZBUKOVNIK OF PAGAN RUS’
Short description:
This book with an astonishing atmosphere features engravings depicting personages from the fabulous and mysterious world of pagan deities and spirits. The illustrations are accompanied by ironically humorous tales written in the bylichka genre of oral folklore that existed in Rus’ up until the 17th century.
Artists:
Edition:
26 copies numbered and signed by the publisher and the artist. Copy № 1 is intended for the collection of the State Hermitage.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
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Year of publication:2012
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Number of pages:112
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Dimensions:480 × 360 mm
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Paper:Hahnemühle (Germany), 300 g/m², handmade
Language:
Russian
The Azbukovnik is a 17th-century Russian encyclopaedic dictionary that has its origins in reference works that combined the characters of a lexicon and an encyclopaedia. That dictionary was an anthology of entries of an educational, didactic and reference nature without any indication of authorship.
Participants in the creation of the book:
Creator of the illustrations, printing of the lithographs — Boris Zabirokhin
Layout — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Design of the cover — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Bronze mounts on the cover – Pavel Yekushev
Bookmark (belt hand-woven using a reed) — the Paraskev Ethnographic Club
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Participants in the creation of the book:
Creator of the illustrations, printing of the lithographs — Boris Zabirokhin
Layout — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Design of the cover — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Bronze mounts on the cover – Pavel Yekushev
Bookmark (belt hand-woven using a reed) — the Paraskev Ethnographic Club
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
The gallery of illustrations of supernatural beings is accompanied by entertaining humorous literary miniatures penned under the influence of the engravings by the Russian-American artist, critic and writer Grigory Kapelyan.
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Akademicheskaya typeface and printed on
a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Akademicheskaya typeface and printed on
a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
The basis for the fabulous and mysterious publication An Azbukovnik of Pagan Rus’ was a series of 25 dry-point engravings masterfully executed by the eminent Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin.
The artist, who has a passion for investigating the sources of folk beliefs, produced works whose personages are the deities and spirits of pagan Rus’ (the lands of the Eastern Slavs).
The artist, who has a passion for investigating the sources of folk beliefs, produced works whose personages are the deities and spirits of pagan Rus’ (the lands of the Eastern Slavs).
The book’s cover is made from black bull hide with abraded areas produced by Italian specialists. A medallion in the centre of the front cover carries a depiction of a Scythian deer, while on the back there are “bugs” in the shape of the claws of some wild animal, cast in bronze with chasing and patination, stylized in the manner of Early Russian pagan art.
The attached bookmark is a belt bearing ancient Slavic symbols woven by hand following historical examples by craftspeople belonging to an ethnographic club.
The book has a storage case decorated with fabric.
The attached bookmark is a belt bearing ancient Slavic symbols woven by hand following historical examples by craftspeople belonging to an ethnographic club.
The book has a storage case decorated with fabric.
Additional information
Details of the creation of this masterpiece
About this edition
About this edition:
-
Year of publication:2012
-
Number of pages:112
-
Dimensions:480 × 360 mm
-
Paper:Hahnemühle (Germany), 300 g/m², handmade
Language:
Russian
The Azbukovnik is a 17th-century Russian encyclopaedic dictionary that has its origins in reference works that combined the characters of a lexicon and an encyclopaedia. That dictionary was an anthology of entries of an educational, didactic and reference nature without any indication of authorship.
Participants in the creation of the book:
Creator of the illustrations, printing of the lithographs — Boris Zabirokhin
Layout — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Design of the cover — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Bronze mounts on the cover – Pavel Yekushev
Bookmark (belt hand-woven using a reed) — the Paraskev Ethnographic Club
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Participants in the creation of the book:
Creator of the illustrations, printing of the lithographs — Boris Zabirokhin
Layout — Yevgeny Bolshakov
Design of the cover — Piotr Suspitsyn
Hand typesetting and printing of the text — Sergei Yashin
Bronze mounts on the cover – Pavel Yekushev
Bookmark (belt hand-woven using a reed) — the Paraskev Ethnographic Club
Binding work — Andrei Degtev, Andrei Kulikov
Text
The gallery of illustrations of supernatural beings is accompanied by entertaining humorous literary miniatures penned under the influence of the engravings by the Russian-American artist, critic and writer Grigory Kapelyan.
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Akademicheskaya typeface and printed on
a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
The text of the book was typeset by hand in the Akademicheskaya typeface and printed on
a 19th-century Dingler hand press.
Illustrations
The basis for the fabulous and mysterious publication An Azbukovnik of Pagan Rus’ was a series of 25 dry-point engravings masterfully executed by the eminent Saint Petersburg graphic artist Boris Zabirokhin.
The artist, who has a passion for investigating the sources of folk beliefs, produced works whose personages are the deities and spirits of pagan Rus’ (the lands of the Eastern Slavs).
The artist, who has a passion for investigating the sources of folk beliefs, produced works whose personages are the deities and spirits of pagan Rus’ (the lands of the Eastern Slavs).
Binding
The book’s cover is made from black bull hide with abraded areas produced by Italian specialists. A medallion in the centre of the front cover carries a depiction of a Scythian deer, while on the back there are “bugs” in the shape of the claws of some wild animal, cast in bronze with chasing and patination, stylized in the manner of Early Russian pagan art.
The attached bookmark is a belt bearing ancient Slavic symbols woven by hand following historical examples by craftspeople belonging to an ethnographic club.
The book has a storage case decorated with fabric.
The attached bookmark is a belt bearing ancient Slavic symbols woven by hand following historical examples by craftspeople belonging to an ethnographic club.
The book has a storage case decorated with fabric.
Grigory Kapelyan
AN AZBUKOVNIK OF PAGAN RUS’
A book about the fabulous and mysterious world of pagan deities and spirits