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KHAN TON ARALCHYN
A Tuvan epic
A heroic epic tale of the deeds of a daring Tuvan youth invested with fantastic superhuman shamanic abilities. The writer Yevgeny Vodolazkin’s verse rendering of the translation is accompanied by mystic illustrations produced in the etching technique by the artist Dashi Namdakov.
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Alexander Pushkin
THE TALE OF THE FISHERMAN AND THE GOLDEN FISH
Translation by Julian Henry Lowenfeld
An edifying fairy tale by the great Russian writer in an English translation produced specially for this edition by Julian Henry Lowenfeld, an American and Russian poet, dramatist and composer, as well as one of the best translators of Pushkin’s works. The illustrations in the book are engravings made in the dry point technique by the gifted and original artist Boris Zabirokhin.
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FLORA GEORGICA
Plantarum Iberiae centuria
Flora Georgica is a major project combining the finest traditions of applied art, science and publishing. It brings together a botanical album prepared by the publishing house and an artistically painted porcelain service produced by the Imperial (Lomonosov) Porcelain Factory. The visual basis for the project was depictions of 100 plants that grow on the territory of Georgia in the Caucasus featured in the scholarly publications of outstanding 18th-century botanists.
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Piotr Tchaikovsky
THE NUTCRACKER
A bibliophilic edition of the ballet The Nutcracker, timed to marked the 20th anniversary of the legendary production of the ballet by the artist Mikhail Chemiakin. The book contains unique artistic-historical materials — a facsimile of a handwritten score of the ballet made by Tchaikovsky himself accompanied by sketches produced by the artist for the set-design of the production.
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Sun Tzu
THE ART OF WAR
Ancient China’s first treatise on warfare. A manual written by the outstanding general Sun Tzu that contains precisely formulated principles of strategy and tactics for waging war. The book continues a series of publications devoted to Chinese military craft.
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Alexander Tvardovsky
VASILY TYORKIN
This publication, prepared for the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, possesses not only artistic, but also historical value. All the items of an officer’s equipment used in making the binding for the book are authentic. The scuff marks, traces of wear and individual differences between each copy serve as a reminder of the fates of those who gave their lives for the sake of a peaceful future.
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Alexei Remizov
WHAT IS TOBACCO
Gonosy’s Tale
This book is the first official publication of a story by the great Russian writer Alexei Remizov that, due to a combination of irrational, mystical circumstances, was destined never to become a generally acknowledged masterpiece of world erotic literature.
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THE THIRTY-SIX STRATAGEMS
An Ancient Chinese treatise
For many years this treatise was a restricted source of great Chinese wisdom passed on as arcane knowledge. The stratagems are not merely military cunning, but the key to the secrets of success, the science of power and the art of communicating and managing people.
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THE LAY OF IGOR’S HOST
The greatest patriotic poem from Early Rus’. Engravings with an astonishing multitude of facets and emotional intensity become a visual dialogue between Yury Lyukshin, an Honoured Artist of Russia, and the late 12th-century epic’s brilliant author. This publication is made especially valuable by the completely handwritten text executed in ustav, the uncial-style script that is the earliest form of Cyrillic writing.
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THE FROG PRINCESS
A Russian folk fairy tale recorded by Alexander Afanasyev
One of the publishing house’s most colourful books was created in the style of 18th-century lubok (popular woodcut print) fairy tales. The lithe, springy “dancing” handwritten text is accompanied by illustrations that are free impulsive drawings created by the legendary Saint Petersburg graphic artists known collectively as G.A.V. Traugot.
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THE SONG OF SONGS
The Song of Songs is a book that stands out for its ambiguous content and is considered one of the most enigmatic parts of the Old Testament. The distinctive, highly expressive illustrations, full of symbols and allegories, are like a key to understanding the mystical meaning of the biblical text.
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Mikhail Lermontov
A HERO OF OUR TIME
The novel A Hero of Our Time is a masterpiece of Russian psychological literature by the great poet and prose writer Mikhail Lermontov. The prototype for the book’s unusual cover was the uniform of an officer of the Nizhny Novgorod Dragoons from the 1830s.
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