Russia in the English schedule of 1917-1938. Chekmarev V.

This publication, in accordance with the features of the entire project, sets its task through the prism of works of English graphic art to trace the specifics of the multidimensional development of Russia. The materials contained in this issue are very diverse. In the most voluminous first chapter, covering the stated twenty -year period unusually saturated with particularly important events, very numerous works of English satirical printed graphics are considered, illustrating the formation and development of the Soviet state in close connection with the domestic and foreign policy realities of that time. The second chapter is entirely devoted to a truly tremendous popularity in England throughout the 1910s-1920s. The art of Russian ballet and its most vivid representatives, which led to the creation of a very significant number of work prominent London schedules. In the final, third chapter, the field drawings of English artists who have visited Russia, which somehow recorded the daily life of Soviet citizens, were collected and also comprehensively analyzed. The vast graphic material presented in the book is published for the first time. The proposed research work is of great historical and artistic interest. It will be useful to both a wide circle of readers and specialists, complementing the history of our country with new facts and numerous, very impressive graphic compositions of famous English masters.