Those of you who have been following Animalarium for a while are aware of my special interest in children's book illustrators of the early Soviet era. In fact, that's part of a larger fascination with Russian art and design of the 1910-30s, including advertising and propaganda, movie posters (I absolutely love the Stenberg brothers), applied arts, etc. Lately I have been collecting favorite pictures of book covers from books and websites, and now it's time to share some. I am trying to keep them in chronological order since it's interesting to see how they tend to change in time. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Sergej Cechonin for Gosti (The guests) by E. Polonskaja, 1924
Aleksej Radakov for Strasnyj son (A terrible dream), 1925
Lidiia Popova for Kon'ogon' (The fiery horse) by Vladimir Mayakovsky, 1928
Vladimir Konasevic for Pozar (The fire) by Samuil Marshak, 1929
Ivan Efimov for Mena (The exchange), 1929
Lev Judin for Kto? (Who?) by A. Vvedenskij, 1930
Many thanks to the online archives of the Museum of Rare Books at the National Library of Ukraine for Children, the Soviet Children's Picture Books Collection at the International Institute of Social History, and the virtual exhibition Children's Books of the Early Soviet Era at the Rare Books and Special Collections Division of McGill University Libraries.
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