Soviet Avant-Garde Painter: Rabinovich Rosalia Moiseevna (1895, Kiev – 1988, Moscow) Avant-Garde Painting for Soviet posters  I Lern the News Reading 'Izvestia' (Uznayu Vesti Ya Chitayu 'Izvestia') Material: paper, gouache, metallic paint Technique of painting: combined Dimensions: 505 * 410 The first signed and inscribed in Cyrillic   Rosalia Rabinovich, 1895 (Kiev) – 1988 (Moscow) She was a painter, graphic artist, scenic designer, and she also worked in the applied and decorative arts. She was the sister of I.M. Rabinovich, the artist and scenic designer. Studied at the A.A. Murashko Drawing School in Kiev (1912-1916) and A.A. Ekster’s studio of decorative arts (1918-1919). Joined a group of radical artists and writers – the Literary Club of Artists, Writers, Performers, and Musicians – at the end of 1910. Moved to Moscow in 1919. First, she studied at A. Osmerkin and D. Scherbinovsky’s state-run art studios and then at Higher Art and Technical Studios at R. Falk’s studio (1920-1925), graduating the latter with the title of ‘First Class Painter’. She painted landscapes of Moscow and the Moscow suburbs, portraits, and other landscapes and made posters and industrial art, showing her work at exhibitions hosted by the Moscow Painters’ Society (1925), ROST (1928), and other institutions. Joined ROST in 1928. Member and advocate of the Society of Socially Active Artists (1928-1930). Started working at a hand painted fabrics factory in 1929. Started teaching theater design at the A. S. Bubnov Central House of Children’s Art in 1933. The dolls and costumes her students made for Alexander Pushkin’s 100th birthday garnered top prizes at an international exhibition in Paris and at a world exhibition in New York. Was the theater designer for a few plays, directed by B. Nord, at the Central State Youth Theater. Worked as an artist at a theater in Ashgabat (Turkmenistan) from 1940 through 1943. Had solo exhibitions in Moscow (1963) and Klin (1977). In 2006, there was a retrospective of her work in Kiev. Rabinovich’s art works are displayed at many museums, including the Tretyakov Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, A. A. Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Nukus Museum of Art, State Museum-Reserve Schelykovo, as well as at galleries in Arkhangelsk, Vladivostok, Donetsk, Klin, the New Jerusalem, Omsk, Tbilisi, and Chelyabinsk.

Porcelain chess "Picturesque" 32 pieces made of porcelain and a porcelain chessboard (Crafts of Verbilok).Form and painting - People's Artist of the RSFSR S. M. OrlovDecoration type: hand-painted, gold.Dimensions: The board is 38x38 cm, the height of the figures is approx. 8 cm.Condition: perfect, brand new, free of defects.

Antique Russian Book:  Author: Barkov, G., Sysoev P.  Title Kebun  Binding: Soft  Language: Russian  Published: Stalingrad.1937  16 pages with illustrations  Condition: In good - very good condition, loss of small fragments at the bottom of the front cover. Kalmyk fairy tale. Artist P. Sysoev. Color illustrations take up more than half the volume of the book (on each page). A rare peripheral publication, the editor (V. Baev) was repressed.

Antique Russian Book:  Author: Glazatov V.  Title: Textbook for a fighter of universal education  Binding: Soft  Language: Russian  Published: Moscow 1942  216 pages with illustrations  Condition: Block good-very good, cover on 4  Not found in the catalog of the RSL, experience of putting up for sale and auctions was not found. Almost everyone who touched the Soviet machine gun theme knows the name of V. Glazatov.He is the author of most of the instructions on the Maxim machine gun, as well as on other weapons. Extract from the service record of V. V. glazatov (as of 1907): Born on 22.12.1879. Lieutenant of the 31st infantry Alexeyevsky regiment. Position-head of weapons, son of a retired Colonel, Orthodox. He was brought up in the 2nd Moscow Emperor Nicholas I Cadet corps (passed 5 classes).In 1922, V. V. Glazatov was certified as Apolitical without a mask of concealment. And in 1926-1928 - politically developed mediocre....Probably 1936-38 year moves to Voenizdat NKO, In 1938, the main political editor Voenizdat NKO battalion Commissar Murashov certification it will write: Despite his advanced age, he is fond of preparing books on shooting, but underestimates the need to work on himself in the field of mastering Marxism-Leninism.In the red Army, the rank of Colonel was awarded to V. V. Glazatov in 1936, and major General-in 1944.according to the database of awards (feat of the people) has only a Medal for the victory over Germany in the great Patriotic war of 1941-1945. despite the General title, ( no other information).About further fate of Glazatov nothing not found . And he was 66 years old in 1945.One of the few tsarist officers who survived the repressions of 1937.

Шахматы из хлеба. Ручная работа. Единичный экземпляр. Размеры:  Доска: 50х50х4 см(открытая) Король: высота 10 см, диаметр основания 4.5 Пешка: Высота 8 см, диаметр основания 3.5 см Арт 19

Amber Chess Set   Dimensions of the board and pieces: Board – 280 x 280 x 15 (mm), chess Board-250 x 250 (mm) (cell 27 x 27 (mm)). Figures height: King-57 mm, pawn-28 mm. Base diameter 22 mm. Velvet lining. Material: amber

Handmade, ceramic, native packaging. Height of pawn 4, 5 cm, the base diameter of the pawn 3 cm Height of king 8cm, the base diameter of the king 3 cm

Antique Soviet Book: Title: The revolutionary movement among the Jews. Digest # 1 (and the only) Binding: Soft. In a three-color font publishing cover.  Language: Russian Published: Moscow.1930 300 pages Condition: good Section on the study of the revolutionary movement among Jews at the Institute of political prisoners and exiles. Preface by S. Dimanstein. Moscow publishing house of political prisoners. Circulation 4000 copies. Subsequent digests were not released. к702

Author: J. Sitska Title: Book on Chess Publisher: Felsberg and Tetterman. Tallin. 1914 Language: Estonian Binding: Paperback Pages: 144   A tutorial that contains general information about the game, tips for beginners on playing the simplest endings, the rules of recording games, games by correspondence.Art Sh

Size :  approx. 135x86mm The card has the original signature of F. I. Chaliapin. This lot was purchased at a well-known auction, which confirms the authenticity of the autograph. Condition: excellent к575

Antique Russian Book:  Author: Almazov B. Title: Rasputin and Russia. (Historical information).  Language: Russian  Binding: In a composite owner's quality binding of the era  Published: Prague 1922.  Pages: 304   Condition: good   In the book the author writes: "Deliberately ignoring the personal life of Grigory Rasputin and completely bypassing the intimate aspects of it that have become a byword, in my book "Rasputin and Russia" I cite only those facts that are directly or indirectly related, as proof of his influence on matters of purely national significance, which, I think, is more clearly revealed this bulky figure of Russian pre-revolutionary modernity, the figure that brought the last stone to strengthen the autocracy, the stone that crushed the entire structure, carefully constructed for centuries, gaps and cracks of which, completely unnoticed by the builders, and eventually led to disaster. The entire book "Rasputin in Russia", from the biography of Rasputin, his appearance on the socio-political horizon to the moment of his murder - all these data are nothing more than a chronicle of the seven-year Rasputin era, a chronicle that has now become historical.". Without specifying the publisher. The established publisher is Slavic publishing house. First edition.   к152   с15- 11-12 (после вникитском)

Title: The Tutorial to the Newly-Discovered Art in the Chess Game. The New Way to Beat in a Few Moves the Most Skilled Player. Second edition, highly augmented. Publisher: Lebedev’s Publishing House. Moscow 1879 Binding: Paperback Language: Russian Pages: 254   This book can be found in Sakharov’s catalogue of chess literature under the number 21. With the application of the games of famous players in Europe and the techniques of famous players Petrov, Brad, Rousseau, Hebeler and Karl van Tenak. With a special section on arts play in Russian and Polish checkersArt Sh