Amirejibi, Ch. [A Squirrel and a Cricket] Belka i sverchok. Illustrated by E. Bulatov, O. Vassiliev. Signed and inscribed by the artists.

Amirejibi, Ch. [A Squirrel and a Cricket] Belka i sverchok. Stories. Retold from Georgian by Yu. Anokhin, G. Snegirev. Illustrated by E. Bulatov, O. Vassiliev. 

Moscow: Malysh, 1985. 8vo [270x218mm].

In original illustrated wrappers; light tearing. Inscribed on back of the front cover by the artists. Overall in good condition. 

Signed and inscribed by the artists: [To Dina from Oleg and Eric. 12.VI.86.] Dine ot Olega b Erika. 12.VI.86.

The design of this Russian retelling of A Squirrel and a Cricket was created by Eric Bulatov (1933-2025) and Oleg Vassiliev (1931-2013), artists and classic painters of the unofficial Soviet art scene of the 1960s-80s. They studied at the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow and later collaborated as children's book illustrators. In the 1960s, Bulatov formed the Sretensky Boulevard Group with Ilya Kabakov, Edik Steinberg, Oleg Vassiliev, Vladimir Yankilevsky, and Viktor Pivovarov. Vassiliev emigrated to the USA in 1990.

Chabua Amirejibi (1921-2013) was a Georgian novelist and a Soviet descendant. In 1944 he was arrested on coup plot charges and sentenced to 25 years in Siberian worker camps. He was rehabilitated in 1959 and began his literary career in the early 1960’s. Most of his works were written in Georgian, however he took it upon himself to translate two of his most famous novels (Data Tutashkhia and Gora Mborgali) into Russian. His shorter stories were either translated or retold from Georgian by other people in order to be published in Russian.

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