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324,000 copies were printed.This well-known children's magazine issue includes the article about Muhammad Ali and the Black Muslim movement in America. The article is completed with Ali's verse entitled in Russian version as Cassius-Boaster. Joseph Brodsky, the future Nobel prize winner, was the translator. Unfortunately, we could not identify the original verse describing Ali's two victories over rivals, Sonny Liston and Joe Frazier (1963 and 1965). Perhaps, Brodsky compiled this poem from two or more of Ali's songs based on I Am the Greatest mainly.Mikhail Belomlinsky (1934-2020), co-designer of the cover of this issue and the illustrator of the first Russian edition of Tolkien's The Hobbit.Brodsky, #375.Rare, as all Soviet Brodsky's publications.

One of 3.000 copies printed.
The edition contains two articles Daedalus or Science and the Future (1924) by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane and the answer Icarus or The Future of Science (1924) by Bertrand Russell.Russell visited Soviet Russian where he met Lenin as a result he wrote the book The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism (1920).
We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC.
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Translation by Boris Pasternak. Preface and comments - M. Morozov.
Signed to print 7/VIII 1942. The book was issued during the Second World War.
Second book edition of Hamlet in Pasternak's translation.
Vsevolod Meyerkhold, Soviet theater director, asked to Pasternak translate this play in 1938. Meyerhold decided that Hamlet should be played by two actors: man and woman. One should read tragic monologue another mimicking him.
Meyerkhold tested for Hamlet his wife, an actress Zinaida Reich.
Pasternak finished his translation in the spring of 1939. By this time Meyerhold was arrested and shot, his wife was killed by unknown person in her apartment. Pasternak felt he could also be arrested. He wanted to finish this translation as his latest book. He wrote in a letter to his father that he would have gone mad without the work on Hamlet.
The only publication of illustrations by Russian artist Nikolai Kuz'min. His portrait of late Zinaida Reich in character of Hamlet is placed on the front cover.
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Tagore Rabindranath. Gitandzhali.Zhertvennye pesnopeniia [Gitanjali]N.A. Pusheshnikov – translation. Edited by Ivan Bunin.Moscow, Knigoizdatelstvo pisatelei v Moskve, 1914.First edition of this translation.OCLC locates one copy only, in Israel, Stanford University has second edition of the translation.
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B. Vasin - translation from English.One of 2.000 copies printed.
First separate edition of the translation, that was previously appeared in Collected works by Tagore in 1916.Original edition published in London in 1913.Very rare.We couldn't trace any copy in OCLC. Two copies kept by National Russian Library.
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Translation by Boris Pasternak. Cover by N. Il'in.
Moskva, GIKhL, 1945.
Limited to 25 000 copies.
Second edition of Otello in Pasternak's translation.
First edition was glassprinting and unofficial, limited to 300 copies. It's practically unobtainable.
This translation was intended for production in the Small Theatre [Malyi Theatre] in Moscow, 'which put spurs to me and hurried up'. Pasternak finished the translation in July 1944. Olga Freudenberg, philologist and Pasternak's cousin, wrote that he translated Othello 'not only in Russian language, but on the meaning of language'. Nevertheless Pasternak translated Othello 'against his will': 'It seems to me former member of family... and I'm terrible simplify it'. In a scene where Othello stifles Desdemona, Pasternak added the remark 'poniard her'.
Zakharenko, 1995. # 115.
OCLC locates two copies in UK at University of Cambridge and University of Birmingham.