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KRIMOV, Vladimir Pimenovich (editor). Stolitsa i

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Petrograd: December 15, 1913- September 30, 1917. 90 numbers (including some multiple issues) in 4 volumes, folio (345 x 260 mm). Printed by R. Golike and A. Vilborg, St. Petersburg. Numerous illustrations. Original decorated wrappers. Condition: some toning to text; occasional splits to backstrips, and toning to covers. complete run of this rare "journal of the beautiful life". Limited to 1500 copies. This elegant bi-weekly surveyed the art, architecture, interiors and divertissements of Russia's extravagant upper classes on the eve of the Revolution. It was modelled on the London journal Country Life; headings by the English artist Arthur Rackham from this magazine as well as cartoons by W. Heath Robinson, Harry Rountree and James Montgomery Flagg appear in Stolitsa i usadba. The ladies and gentleman who appear in the Russian journal seem completely oblivious to the World War and the approaching apocalypse. No. 55 (April 1, 1916) dealt with the Tsar and his family so the Bolsheviks confiscated it. Nauchnaya i spravochnaya literatura-iskysstvo (1977) states on p. 55 that this issue was "withdrawn." (4)

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