A nice German edition of these three verse fairy tales from Pushkin. First edition thus. German translation (from Russian) by Dr. Ervin Walter. Stiff card boards. These have slight to moderate rubbing, but are still attractive. Cloth spine with a touch of fraying. Inside, the pages are slightly darkened to the edges, but sound. Published by a scarce female publisher from this period. Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (1799–1837) is widely regarded as Russia’s greatest poet and the founder of modern Russian literature. He transformed the Russian literary language, blending colloquial speech with elevated poetic forms, and his work became the model for later Russian writers from Gogol and Turgenev to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Chekhov. Georg Schlicht (1886–1964) was a versatile German-Russian painter, graphic artist, and theatre designer. Born in Vladykino near Saratov, Russia, to a German engineer father and Russian mother. Schlicht studied at the Bogoljubow Art School and Moscow's Institute for Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. Interned during World War I due to his German heritage, he was expelled to Germany in 1918 after the October Revolution, settling in places like Berlin, Eisenach, and Hamburg. He worked as a theatre designer, restored frescoes, and exhibited with artists like Max Liebermann, Max Slevogt, and Lovis Corinth. His Berlin studio was destroyed in a 1943 bombing, but he continued painting post-war themes of nostalgia for Russia. 69 pages. 32.5 x 24.5cm