Illustrations From Zhar-Ptitsa, Part II
The beginning of Teffi’s story “The Descendant” opposite Natalya Goncharova’s painting “The Massacre of the Innocents.”
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Two color plates of paintings by Sergei Sudeikin accompanying an article about his work entitled “Sudeikin in the Cabaret.”
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At left a poem, “Spring,” by Vladimir Sirin (Vladimir Nabokov). The decorative paintings, not credited, are by Natalya Goncharova.
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Below left a poem, “Shakespeare,” by Vladimir Sirin (Vladimir Nabokov); at right, a color plate of an illustration, “Persian Princess,” by Ivan Bilibin.
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Boris Pilnyak’s story “Deaths” accompanied by a photo of the sculpture “Awakening” by S. Yuryevich.
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At left “Soul,” a story by Boris Zaitsev, with an unidentified illustration, accompanied at right by “Coloring Eggs,” a painting by Leonid Pasternak.
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A photograph of Ilya Repin and the violinist Cecilia Hansen taken in 1922 at Repin’s workshop in Kuokkalla, Finland.
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Photos of Vera and Mikhail Fokin accompanying an article about the latter’s groundbreaking choreography.
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Photos of the great ballerina Anna Pavlova.
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Photos of Ivan Bersenev and Pyotr Baksheyev, actors from the Moscow Art Theater.
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Advertisements for an automobile company and a furrier.
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Ads for Marie Latz, a clothing designer, and Kanterovich vodka.
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Ads for two publishing companies, accompanied by color plates.
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