Book by Semen Solomonovich Yushkevich (1868-1927), Avtomobil i drugie raskazy - Automobile and other stories. Printed by Grzhebin Publishers, Berlin in 1923. Constructivist cover design by El Lissitsky (1890-1941), size 21.7x14.9cm. Softcover, fair condition, losses on front and back covers, spine, corner loss on few last pages, some restoration to front cover.Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (Russian: Ла́зарь Ма́ркович Лиси́цкий, About this sound listen (help·info)) (November 23 [O.S. November 11] 1890 – December 30, 1941), better known as El Lissitzky (Russian: Эль Лиси́цкий, Yiddish: על ליסיצקי), was a Russian artist, designer, photographer, typographer, polemicist and architect. He was an important figure of the Russian Avant Garde, helping develop suprematism with his mentor, Kazimir Malevich, and designing numerous exhibition displays and propaganda works for the Soviet Union. His work greatly influenced the Bauhaus and constructivist movements, and he experimented with production techniques and stylistic devices that would go on to dominate 20th-century graphic design.[1] Source: WikipediaYUSHKEVICH, Semen Solomonovich (1868-- 1927), novelist, was born in Odessa. Education - a doctor (he studied in Paris). The last years of his life (1920) conducted abroad. Popularity Yu before the October Revolution was due to the fact that it was primarily bytopisatelem city suburbs. His favorite characters - small traders, prostitutes, thieves, hawkers, poor artisans, workers, and especially Jewish poor. Nek- product Yu (eg. "Leon Dray," "Comedy of marriage") provide - in a satirical refraction - the life of the Jewish bourgeoisie. A typical petty bourgeois, radical leftist writer with a platonic sympathy for the revolutionary socialism, Yu in his work does not go beyond compassionate, undefined longing for "beautiful life", about freedom, dreams of liberated creative personality, and so on. E., To-eq often imbued his story with their tendency towards modernism, romantic elation and declamatory pathos. Despite this prose Yu is widely painted pre-revolutionary reality, exposes the dark side of the reaction regime. Especially exciting impression description pogroms. Significant; success enjoyed drama Yushkevich (in particular the "King"), the play "Miserere" was on the scene of the Art Theatre. Source: Soviet Encyclopedia