Leningrad, Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo, 1929
Vvedensky was one of the great modern Russian absurdist writers, who was arrested along with Daniil Kharms during Stalin's political purges and died mysteriously in the gulag. His children's books were banned and confiscated and are now of great rarity. Zheleznaia Doroga is one of the best collaborations between the two leading figures of the Soviet avant-garde in the 1920s. Alisa Poret (1902-1984) studied under Petrov-Vodkin at Vkhutein and from 1926 under Pavel Filonov.
In typical Soviet fashion the book romanticises the strength of the railway to transport people across the fields, valleys, and steppes whatever the weather. The train engineer looks remarkably like Daniil Kharms who as well as being a close friend of Vvedenskiy was also Poret's lover.
Scarce. Worldcat locates four copies: Columbia, LoC, Getty Research Institute, and Princeton
Sole edition, square 8vo (23 x 19.3 cm); 10pp., illustrations after Poret throughout; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
In typical Soviet fashion the book romanticises the strength of the railway to transport people across the fields, valleys, and steppes whatever the weather. The train engineer looks remarkably like Daniil Kharms who as well as being a close friend of Vvedenskiy was also Poret's lover.
Scarce. Worldcat locates four copies: Columbia, LoC, Getty Research Institute, and Princeton
Sole edition, square 8vo (23 x 19.3 cm); 10pp., illustrations after Poret throughout; original printed wrappers, a fine copy.
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