The Grushnikov Collection at the Library of Congress

Figures & data

FIGURE 1 Illustration by Nikolai Ustinov (b. 1937) for Mikhail Prishvin's Lisichkin khleb [The fox's bread]. Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1987.

FIGURE 2 Tri medvedia [Three bears] by Leo Tolstoy; illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev (1891–1967). Moscow: Detgiz, 1948.

FIGURE 5 Moia pervaia zoologiia: chast' vtoraia: V lesu [My first zoology: part two: In the forest], illustrated by Evgenii Charushin (1901–1965). Moscow: Detgiz, 1942.

FIGURE 6 Kot-Vorkot [The grouchy cat], llustrations by Iurii Vasnetsov (1900–1973). Moscow: Detgiz, 1948.

FIGURE 7 Zaichik i drugie stikhi [The hare and other poems] by Aleksandr Blok; illustrations by Naum Tseitlin (1909–1997). Moscow and Leningrad: Detgiz, 1956.

FIGURE 8 Medved' i veter [The bear and the wind] by Kronid Garnovskii; illustrated by Viktor Duvidov (1932–2000) and Aleksei Shtorkh. Moscow: Sovetskaia Rossiia, 1960.

FIGURE 9 Soroka-beloboka: russkaia narodnaia igrovaia pesnia [The white-winged magpie: a Russian folksong]. Illustrations by Iurii Vasnetsov. Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1964.

FIGURE 10 Obyknovennye varezhki [Ordinary mittens] by Ia. Piniasov; drawings by Ol'ga Bogaevskaia (b. 1915). Moscow: Detskaia Literatura, 1964.

FIGURE 11 Kukareku [Cock-a-doodle-do] by Irina Tokmakova; drawings by Lev Tokmakov (b. 1928). Moskva: Detskaia literatura, 1978.

FIGURE 19 Uchenik charodeia [The magician's apprentice] by Lev Kassil'; with drawings by Tat'iana Lebedeva. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo detskoi literatury, 1934. Front endpapers.

FIGURE 13 686 zabavnykh prevrashchenii [686 amusing transformations]. Artists: Georgii Traugot and Aleksandr Traugot. Moscow: L. O. Khudozh. Fonda SSSR, 1956. Metamorphic pictures: a “slice book.”

FIGURE 14 Kot, petukh i lisa [The cat, the rooster, and the fox]. Picture puzzle blocks. Illustrations by Tat'iana Mavrina. Moscow, 1952.

FIGURE 15 Galosha [The rubber boot] by Mikhail Pliatskovskii; drawings by Viktor Pivovarov (b. 1937). Moscow: Malysh, 1965. Board book.

FIGURE 16 Bukvarenok [The big alphabet book] written and illustrated by Georgii Iudin. Moscow: Detskaia literatura, 1980.

FIGURE 3 Pesn' o stroike [A song about construction] by Agniia Barto; illustrations by Tat'iana Mavrina (1902–1996). Moscow: Ogiz; Molodaia gvardiia, 1931. “Ofset-pechat' litografii Tsentrizdata.”

FIGURE 4 Ozernyi front [Lakeside military front] by Konstantin Paustovskii; illustrations by Tat'iana Mavrina. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo detskoi literatury, 1934.

FIGURE 12 Stekliannyi prud [The glass pond] by Tat'iana Mavrina and Iurii Koval' (1938–1995). Moscow: Detskaia Literatura, 1978.

FIGURE 17 Kot Samson [Samson the cat] compiled by A. I. Lebedev; with drawings by T. L. (Tat'iana Lebedeva). This copy has covers only; publication information wanting.

FIGURE 18 Uchenik charodeia [The magician's apprentice] by Lev Kassil'; drawing by Tat'iana Lebedeva. Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo detskoi literatury, 1934.

FIGURE 20 Skazka o glupom myshonke [The tale of the foolish little mouse] by Samuil Marshak; illustrations by Vladimir Lebedev. Moscow: Detgiz, 1951.