Žilinskaitė, Vytautė [The Castle of Liars]. Zamok Lgunov. 

Translation from Lithuanian by B. Zalesskaia and G. Gerasimov. 
Illustrations by Adasa Skliutauskaitė. 

Moskva, Izdatel’stvo “Malysh”, 1977. 
8vo, 44, [4] pp.incl.wr., ill. 

In original pictorial wrappers. 
Near very good condition.  

Likely, the only edition of these illustrations. 

The story follows a boy named Dinas, who lies constantly and one day finds himself in the Castle of Liars, where everything and everyone is fake. Dinas quickly realizes that he doesn't enjoy this world and tries to escape. Eventually, he succeeds and learns an important lesson – that lying is wrong. He decides to always tell the truth and returns home.
The story was originally written in 1968 by Vytautė Žilinskaitė (1930–2024), a prominent Lithuanian female prose writer, humorist, and author of children’s literature. In 2008, her novella 'Kintas' was included in the IBBY Honour List. 
Notably, this tale was adapted into a Russian-language animated film in 1983.
The illustrations were created by Adasa Skliutauskaitė (1931–2023), a Lithuanian female artist, puppeteer, and children’s book illustrator. The first edition of 'The Castle of Liars' with illustrations by Skliutauskaitė was published in Vilnius in 1974. While we have not been able to examine a complete copy for comparison, the cover design of the original differs notably. In 2013, the story was republished in Russian with new illustrations by Skliutauskaitė herself, who slightly reworked the 1977 drawings.

OCLC locates only one copy of this edition, held by the Berlin State Library.