Figure 1.-- One reader remembers Krapivin's book The Tales of the Old Arbat. Like many of Krapivin's books, the story includes children an fastasy creatures. Arbat is best known street in Moscow, the principal commercial street of the city where clothes and toys are purchased. Like some of Krapivin's books, it was illustrated by Evgeniy Medvedev. The illustrations show the short pants and long stockings worn by Soviet bows during the 1950s. They also show the " valenki " -- the kind of felt boots typically worn during the cold Russian winters, even inside the home.

We have limited information on Soviet authors of children's books. Soviet children's books wre not distributed in the West and, as a result, HBC has little information on them. Some authors we have noted include Krapivin, Marshak, Neverov, and Politschuk. There were many others. A HBC reader tells us that Vladislav Krapivin was the most famous modern Russian author of the books for children during the late Soviet period. Krapivin had a close association with Evgeniy Medvedev who illustrated many of his books. We have little information on these authors and their work. Hopefully our Russian readers will provide more information on these authors.

Krapivin, Vladislav

A HBC reader tells us that Vladislav Krapivin was the most famous modern Russian author of the books for children during the late Soviet period. Krapivin had a close association with Evgeniy Medvedev who illustrated many of his books. Some books were about realistic childhood experiences such a children away fom home in summer camps. One reader remembers Krapivin's book The Tales of the Old Arbat. Some of Krapivin's books included children an fastasy creatures. Arbat is best known street in Moscow, the principal commercial street of the city where clothes and toys are purchased. Like many of Krapivin's books, it was illustrated by Medvedev. The illustrations show the short pants and warm-looking long stockings worn by Soviet bows during the 1950s. They also show the " valenki " -- the kind of felt boots typically worn during the cold Russian winters, even inside the home.

Marshak

Neverov

Politschuk

Lubov Voronkova

Lubov Voronkova was active in the 1960s. We do not know a great deal about the author at this time. We notice his book Masha-rastyeryasha (Masha-loose-all-things). The book was published in the mid-1960s. Thwre were some nicely done illustrations by Henrich Valk. One illustration shows a child putting her stockings on in the morning. Here you can note that instead of garter waists or other support garmenrs, stockings were supported with special buttons on panties before tights replaced stockings. The child in the illustration is a girl on the pic, but in the period illustrated, girls and boys wore similiar underwear and hosiery.

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