| Pushkin A.S.
THE GABRILIADE: A poem
Moscow, Paris:
"RUSS", 1999. -110 pages, illustrated, Russian and English text, translated
from the Russian by Max Eastman, 42x63 mm,
100 signed
and numbered copies, including 20 inscribed copies.
This unique
miniature issue - "THE GABRILIADE" - was illustrated specially for the
200-year anniversary of the birth of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin by the
well known Russian artist Vitaly Statzinsky, now living in Paris.
The artist
made 19 brown pen-and-ink illustrations for this edition. 20 copies
were published with the author’s coloration (color pencils).
A bibliophile
edition offset printed in brown color on paper "INGRES", has a red
cloth binding with gold stamping on spine, covers, and dust-cover.
The book has
reproductions of Pushkin`s self-portrait, detail from his autograph,
June 1821-March 1822, Kishinev; a picture his friend, Nikolai Alexeev drawn
by Coisin in 1825; the Pushkin`s facsimile with the excerption of "THE
GABRILIADE" program.
The introductory
article “From the history of the illustrations to the poem ”The Gabriliade”
by A.S.Pushkin” was written by Yaroslav Kostyuk.
The Russian
text is taken from the 1922 issue of the poem; the English text from 1929
(translation Max Eastman, New York, "Covici-Friede"). Epilogue and notes
are from the issue of 1935. |
Miniaturbuch Berlin e.V.
