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[COVER PROOF] Tanya – revoliutsionerka [i.e. Tanya is a revolutionary]

Vereiskaia, E.

Item #2480

[Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo, 1928]. 18,5×28,5 cm. Mint condition.

A constructivist cover proof for the first edition of the short story “Tanya is a revolutionary” by children’s writer Elena Vereiskaia (1886–1966). Born and studied in St Petersburg, she hid in Smolensk province for the Civil War where she taught children in a village school. In 1922, Vereiskaia came back to St Petersburg and joined Marshak’s group of writers. Since then, she collaborated to the magazines “Chizh”, “Yozh”, “Pioner”, “Koster”. She is the author of children’s stories and novels, reprinted during the Soviet era. This particular work was translated to languages of Soviet ethnic groups and published multiple times.
Design was created by Tatiana Shishmareva (1905–1994). She studied at the archaeological faculty of Petrograd University (1923–1924) and attended private art studios. Among her mentors in painting were N. Radlov, M. Dobuzhinsky, A. Savinov. Since 1926 she worked in Detgiz with V. Lebedev, V. Konashevich, N. Tyrsa, N. Lapshin, then at the Lenfilm film studio with early Soviet animated film designers in 1932–1934. Contributing to various publishing houses, Shishmareva designed and illustrated lots of Soviet books.

Price: $650.00