Caricatures from Biblionne

This satirical map of Europe represented combatant nations by caricatures of dogs and people, which displaying their attitudes towards the War. The is Germany is the Dachshund, Austrian is a Mongrel, Belgium is a little Griffon, France is a large Poodle and Britain is the Bulldog led by a figure in naval uniform. Nicholas II, the last tsar of Russia, shown… Read more about this item

This is the album with grotesque caricatures of wellknown European and Russian paintings; supplement to humoristic weekly serials Satirikon. There are a lot of Russian writers and artists worked as a contributors: Arkadii Averchenko, Teffi, Sasha Chernyi, Don-Aminado, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Alexander Iakovlev, Leon Bakst, Boris Kustodiev, Ivan Bilibin, Boris Grigoriev, Sergei Sudeikin, Nikolai Remizov (Re-Mi), Aleksandr Iunger. The most interesting… Read more about this item

The pamphlet of Esfir' Emden (1905-1961) was the answer to black public relation campaign against Russian butter in the English market. The campaign started in January 1931, and to the end of this year nearly five hundreds articles about small bug founded in Russian butter in UK appeared in English and Australian newspapers. Until 1931 Russian butter had a monopoly… Read more about this item

B. Privalov and I. Savitsky – translation from English. V. Briskin – illustrations. Collected humoristic stories written before the World War II. It contains stories by Canadian humorist Stephen Leacock including A Hero in Homespun or The Life Struggle of Hezekiah Hayloft from his Nonsense Novels (1911), two stories by American writer Richard Connell including Half dollar story, two stories by Louis… Read more about this item

B. Privalov and I. Savitsky – translation from English. P. Karachentsov – illustrations. Collected stories including a story by Louis Mamet and Mike Quin, a communist writer (How the Devil Unbuttoned Whittingham). Libman 897. We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.