I've put all of them on my list and am very excited about reading them, though I fully expect that it will be a while before I can read most of them. I was quite happy when Arenel offered to write this up, so thank you Arenel!
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| A Bilibin illustration of "Vasilisa the Beautiful" |
As long as we're talking Russian children's literature, be sure to keep an eye out for stories illustrated by the great Ivan Bilibin (1876-1942). He illustrated many folk and fairy tales, and I am lucky to have a very old paperback folio of Pushkin's Tale of Tsar Saltan illustrated by him.
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Thanks for spreading the word! And I completely love Bilibin too! It's a pity there are usually another illustrations in new editions, but I still have my old books illustrated by him back at home, and I'd never change them for new ones)) I should have probably spend more time on this and find some illustrations myself, but unfortunately I don't have much of it (time, I mean:))
Oh, I already had that Vasilisa one. :) In fact last night I was looking for ebooks featuring Bilibin illustrations, in hopes that they had gone out of copyright. Amazon does have a lot available--they are not free, but they aren't expensive either.
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