Kirill Zdanevich

(1892 - 1969)

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Sergei Esenin

Страна Советская

The Land of the Soviets

Tbilisi: Sov. Kavkaz, 1925

210 x 145 mm. 62 pages 

Edition: 5,000. 

First Edition, published in the year of the death of the Russian poet Sergei Esenin (1895-1925). The cover is a design of Kirill Mikhailovich Zdanevich (1892-1969) and belongs to the bold designs of the artist who signed with "KZ". The letter "C" (= "S") "Sovjetskaja Strana" is used for both letters in the title and is, at the same time, the sickle symbol of communism.

References:

Tarasenkov 1966, p. 139

Getty 1997, nr. 174

Khachaturov 2009, p. 61