Detgiz, Moscow/Leningrad 1953. Staple-bound, illustrated wrappers, 20pp. VG, no markings

Approximately 10.6” x 8.75”

Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya (Russian: О́льга Бори́совна Богае́вская, 1915 - 2000) was a Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad. She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of painting. The leading themes of her work are child portrait and still-life in the interior and the exterior. ~ Wikipedia

Detskaya Literatura (Russian: Детская литература, tr. Detskaja literatura, lit. "Children's Literature"), formerly Detgiz and Detizdat, is a Soviet and Russian publishing house for children's literature. It was established on September 9, 1933 by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union on the basis of Molodaya Gvardiya's children's imprint. The company was initially called Detgiz (Russian: ДЕТГИЗ, Детское государственное издательство, tr. Detskoe gosudarstvennoe izdatelstvo, lit. "The State Children's Publishing House"). The company had offices in Moscow and Leningrad. The first chief editor was Samuil Marshak. In 1933 Detgiz published 168 titles. In 1937 the headquarters of Detgiz was destroyed, some employees (such as Lydia Chukovskaya) were fired, others were arrested, imprisoned or executed by a firing squad.

The publisher's name was changed numerous times, from Detgiz (1933) to DETIZDAT (1936) to Detgiz again (1941) to Detskaya Literatura (1963). In 1991 the publishing house was divided into the Moscow department, called Detskaya Literatura, and the Saint Petersburg department, called Lyceum or "Lyceum: The State Republican Publishing House for Children and Youth Literature" (Russian: Государственное республиканское издательство детской и юношеской литературы „Лицей“, tr. Gosudarstvennoe respublikanskoe izdatelstvo detskoj i junosheskoj literatury „Litsej“), which later became DETGIZ. ~ Wikipedia