Romeo & Juliet Illustrated by Dementy Shmarinov - Vintage Book, William Shakespeare, Soviet Art, Socialist Realism, Russian Artist, 1960s

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A lovely 1963 Russian language Romeo and Juliet illustrated by Soviet artist Dementy Shmarinov.

Written by William Shakespeare. Illustrated by Dementy Shmarinov. First edition, 1963.

Well-remembered Soviet artist Dementy Shmarinov (1907 - 1999) illustrated this Russian language translation of the great play Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare. Shmarinov was a well-known graphic artist, a long-serving chairman of the Moscow Union of Artists, and a member of numerous state arts organizations.

After 1932, for art to be officially approved it had to represent the ideals of the state, known as Socialist Realism, and Shmarinov is a fine example of Soviet-era artists who excelled above and beyond political expectations.

Shmarinov is remembered for his illustrations for War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, Peter the Great by Alexei Tolstoy, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin. He also designed several propaganda posters during World War II and later.

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Condition*: Fine/Very Good. Dust jacket: edge wear top and bottom edges, spine, and fore edges; corners slightly bumped with small open tear on lower back corner and closed tear on front top corner; minor scuffing at head and tail of spine. Blue cloth cover boards with white lilly embossed on the front cover; light sunning at top edges; indent at lower left front corner.

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