Rare books, manuscripts, music, ephemera…
10th June 2016
I’m currently cataloguing material for a list on the theatre, to be issued later in the summer (do let me know if you’d like to receive it) and thought I’d share this, as a follow-up to my post last year on Kipling in Russia. This is a copy of the first (and only) edition of […]
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28th December 2015
Later this week sees the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). So much has been written about Kipling, and his books, but there is very little published about his popularity in Russia, which began in the 1890s and continued well into the Soviet era. As far as I can work out, his first appearance […]
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