Full title.....The Lay of Tsar Ivan Vassilyevch his young count Oprichnik and the stouthearted Merchant Kalishnikov


Moscow, USSR: Raduga Publishers, 1983. 25pp. An exceptionally attractive copy -- oversize (folio) hardcover with cream colored boards, decoration and lettering in mustard, red and black; interior printed black on cream laid paper with red decoration. Condition of volume is exceptionally nice -- cover and interior clean, binding sound -- Original clear acetate cover Original English edition copyright 1976 by Progress Publishers (this Raduga edition has new illustrations). First Printing Thus. Translated from the Russian by Irina Zheleznova (1976); fully illustrated by Ivan Bilibin (1938); designed by Irina Kiselevskaya. Date printed at end of text is 1837. Of interest for its generously and beautifully reproduced grouping of Bilibin's woodblock engravings.