Around the World Vokrug Sveta #28 1929

"Around the World" the oldest Russian and Soviet magazine focusing on popular science and geography, history, world culture, published since 1861. Cover illustration by V Belkin, a Russian artist and painter. He made a lot of book artwork and was presented at various exhibitions from 1906, both in the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad) and abroad (Paris, New York, Boston). Among Belkin's notable scores are those for The Decameron, The Three Musketeers, A Hero of Our Time and The Knight in the Panther's Skin. He also worked for famous publishing house Academia. Belkin was a close friend of Alexey Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova. List of this issue's artwork included illustrations by A Lubimov for the story "Adventure", I Korolev for the story "Notes on the Death of a Steel Scout". Published by "Krasnaya Gazeta", 1929. Good condition. Slightly frayed spine, pencil handwriting on the back cover, rubbings. 24 pages.