Item #143 [REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]. A. K Tolstoi.
[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]
[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]
[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]
[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]
[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]

[REVIVAL OF RUSSIAN FOLK ART] Sadko: Bylina grafa Alekseia Tolstogo, s miniatyurami M.P. Solovieva [i.e. Sadko. Bylina by Count Aleksei Tolstoy, with miniatures by M.P. Soloviev]

St. Petersburg: tip. A. Benke, 1905. Item #143

[8] pp.: ill. 25,5x17 cm. In original chromolithographed wrappers. Fine. Small stain on the front cover.

Unique charity edition of the Community of St. Eugene (the biggest pre-revolutionary publishing house of postcards) with two illustrations and six highly artistic initials. A great example of prime polygraphy of the time and Russian folk art which was revived by modernists in the beginning of the 20th century.
The poem by Aleksei Tolstoy (1817-1875), count from Tolstoy family, Russian writer, was based on legendary Novgorod bylina (Russian traditional oral epic narrative poem about heroes).

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