Around the World Vokrug Sveta #36 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 N Kochergin, Russian (Soviet) avant-garde painter, graphic artist, and sculptor mainly active in Leningrad. Born near Moscow, Kochergin studied at the Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry in 1908-1918. List of this issue's artwork included illustrations by I Korolev for the story "Golden Train", G Fitingof for the story "Perkins Plaster", A Lubimov for the story "Frames from My Film". Lubimov was a Russian Soviet realist painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, professor of Repin Institute of Arts and Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Industry, who lived and worked in Leningrad. He was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and regarded as one of founder and the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait paintings and satirical drawings.  Published by "Krasnaya Gazeta", 1929. Fair condition. Detached cover. Frayed spine and margins, pencil handwriting on the back cover, rubbings. 24 pages.