Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales (Skazki): Thumbelina. The Wild Swans. The Ugly Duckling. The Nightingale; illustrated by Vladimir Konashevich, 1947. In Russian.

Андерсен, Г. Х. Сказки : Дюймовочка. Дикие лебеди. Гадкий утенок. Соловей / Г. Х. Андерсен ; перевод А. Ганзен ; рисунки В. Конашевича.
Серия: Первая библиотечка школьника.
Москва ; Ленинград : Детгиз, 1947 (Фабрика детской книги Детгиза, Москва). 95 с., ил. ; 17 × 12,3 см.
Тираж 100 000 экз. 
Иллюстрированный издательский картонный переплёт.
Состояние хорошее: переплёт с лёгкими пятнами и потёртостями по краям. Блок чистый, полный.
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Andersen, Hans Christian. Fairy Tales: Thumbelina. The Wild Swans. The Ugly Duckling. The Nightingale / by Hans Christian Andersen ; translated by Anna Hansen ; illustrations by Vladimir Konashevich.
Series: First Little School Library.
Moscow; Leningrad: Detgiz, 1947 (Detgiz Children's Book Factory, Moscow). 95 pp., illustrated ; 17 × 12.3 cm.
Print run of 100,000 copies. 
Illustrated publisher's cardboard binding.
Condition good: binding with light spotting and edge wear. Text block clean and complete.

This 1947 Detgiz schoolbook edition gathers four of Hans Christian Andersen's most beloved tales - "Thumbelina," "The Wild Swans," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Nightingale" - in the classic Russian translation of Anna Vasilievna Hansen (Ganzen, 1869-1942), whose renderings of Andersen, made directly from the Danish at the turn of the twentieth century, remain the standard Russian versions of the tales to this day. The edition is illustrated throughout by Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich (1888-1963), one of the most important figures in twentieth-century Russian book illustration and a central member of the Leningrad school of children's-book graphic art alongside Vladimir Lebedev and Yuri Vasnetsov. Trained at the Stroganov School in Moscow, Konashevich worked across painting, porcelain design for the State Porcelain Factory, and stage design before devoting himself chiefly to book illustration from the 1920s onward, becoming one of the principal illustrators for the pioneering Leningrad children's press under Lebedev and Samuil Marshak; his light, lyrically stylized fairy-tale manner, seen here in the delicate ink drawings of Thumbelina asleep in her flower and the eleven swans bearing Eliza's net across the sea, became one of the most recognizable visual idioms of Soviet children's publishing, and Andersen was among the authors he returned to across several editions over his long career. Issued as part of the "First Little School Library" series aimed at beginning readers, in a very large print run of 100,000 copies, the edition represents the immediate postwar consolidation of Andersen's fairy tales as standard classroom and home reading in the USSR, uniting two of the great names of Russian book culture - Hansen's translation and Konashevich's illustration - in a single small volume.