The printing quality of this book is stunning - the colours are still as vibrant as they would have been the day it was printed. I reckon it was before WW2, looking at the style of the drawings. The Soviet Government of the time must have had a large budget for literature - and lots of cheap labour. Curiously, the text is in English (maybe it was produced for export - who knows). Here's a good link for the writer's biography: http://russiapedia.rt.com/prominent-russians/literature/nikolay-leskov/
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Welcome to the April A to Z Blog Challenge! My theme this year is
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Thank you for these two posts! I didn't know about this edition, and the illustrations are quite striking.
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