{"product_id":"tolstoy-l-n-childhood-boyhood-youth-detstvo-otrochestvo-yunost-designed-by-a-shcherbakov-1937-in-russian","title":"Tolstoy, L. N. Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Detstvo. Otrochestvo. Yunost'). Designed by A. Shcherbakov, 1937. In Russian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eТолстой, Л. Н. Детство. Отрочество. Юность.\u003cbr\u003eМосква: Гослитиздат, 1937.\u003cbr\u003e286, [2] с., с концовками; 23×15 см.\u003cbr\u003eХудожник А. Щербаков. Редактор С. Петров. Технический редактор Б. Новиков.\u003cbr\u003eТираж 15 000 экз.\u003cbr\u003eВ издательском коленкоровом переплёте зелёного цвета с блинтовым тиснением (название и виньетка с сельским пейзажем на верхней крышке, орнаментальная рамка). \u003cbr\u003eСостояние: хорошее. Переплёт крепкий, незначительные следы бытования по краям, блок чистый, листок с опечатками сохранён.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eTolstoy, L. N. Detstvo. Otrochestvo. Yunost' [Childhood. Boyhood. Youth].\u003cbr\u003eMoscow: Goslitizdat (State Publishing House for Fiction), 1937.\u003cbr\u003e286, [2] pp., with vignettes; 23×15 cm.\u003cbr\u003eArtist A. Shcherbakov. Editor S. Petrov. Technical editor B. Novikov.\u003cbr\u003ePrint run: 15,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eIn publisher's green cloth binding with blind-stamped lettering and a rural landscape vignette on the upper cover, ornamental border. \u003cbr\u003eCondition: good. Binding firm, minor wear to edges, text block clean, errata slip preserved.\u003cbr\u003eLev Tolstoy's autobiographical trilogy — Childhood (1852), Boyhood (1854), and Youth (1857) — marks the dawn of one of the greatest careers in world literature: Childhood was Tolstoy's first published work, dispatched from a Cossack outpost in the Caucasus to Nikolai Nekrasov's Sovremennik, where it appeared anonymously and was immediately hailed by Turgenev and the Russian critical establishment as the arrival of a major new voice. The trilogy traces the inner life of Nikolenka Irtenev from the protected world of the country estate through adolescence at Moscow University, drawing on Tolstoy's own memories of Yasnaya Polyana, the death of his mother, his student years, and his moral self-examinations — the seeds of the introspective method that would mature in War and Peace and Anna Karenina. This 1937 Goslitizdat edition appeared during the centenary of Pushkin's death and amid the Stalin-era canonization of nineteenth-century Russian classics for a mass Soviet readership: artist A. Shcherbakov supplied a series of period vignettes (the carriage on the title page, decorative tail-pieces) evoking the gentry world of Tolstoy's youth, while the modest print run of 15,000 copies and the surviving errata slip are characteristic of the careful editorial production of the late 1930s State Publishing House for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44287596691498,"sku":null,"price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1319.jpg?v=1777152079","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/tolstoy-l-n-childhood-boyhood-youth-detstvo-otrochestvo-yunost-designed-by-a-shcherbakov-1937-in-russian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}