UVa Library Press Kit
The Firebird and the Factory - Modern Russian Children's Books
Contact: Charlotte Morford at (434) 924-4254 or cwm6z@virginia.edu
Press Release
“THE FIREBIRD AND THE FACTORY: MODERN RUSSIAN CHILDREN'S BOOKS” AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA LIBRARY
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Images
Below are images and captions with links to downloadable files. Please contact Deborah Eshenour if you have trouble downloading.
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Vladimir Nabokov translated this 1923 Russian edition of Lewis Carroll's Adventures of Alice in Wonderland. [Special Collections, U.Va. Library] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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Where Do Dishes Come From? (1924), illustrated by Galina and Olga Chichagova, teaches children about the means and processes of industrial production. [On loan from Sasha Lurye] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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This hedgehog in a yarmulke is an illustration for the Russian letter "e" in Mstislav Dobuzhinsky's The Merry Alphabet (1925). [On loan from Sasha Lurye] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
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The mythical firebird, illustrated here by Ivan Bilibin (Fairy Tales: The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird, and the Gray Wolf,1901), figures prominently in pre-revolutionary Russian children’s books. [On loan from Sasha Lurye] | web (72dpi) newspaper (150dpi) book/magazine (300dpi) |
