Legends of Crimea
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Legends of Crimea
9.99 €
The book publishes thirty-six legends of the Crimea collected and recorded by Nikandr Alexandrovich Marks (1861-1921), professor of archaeology, Crimean scholar and folklorist and lieutenant general. The first and second editions of the legends were published in Moscow in 1912 and 1913, the third edition was published in Odessa in 1917. The book is decorated with illustrations by K. Artseulov, I. Zakharov and N. Agapieva. At the end of the edition there is an essay by Maximilian Voloshin "Traveler through the universes. The Case of N. Marx".
In 1907 the Archaeological Institute was opened in Moscow. Among its first students stood out an unusual student - an elderly man in the uniform of a major-general. This was Nikandr Alexandrovich Marx. Maximilian Voloshin, who knew him well, wrote that Marx decided to abruptly change his life as a professional hereditary military man under the influence of Leo Tolstoy's pacifist appeals. Nikandr Alexandrovich went to visit the writer in Yasnaya Polyana, had a long talk with him and soon left the military service. In 1910, shortly before his fiftieth birthday, Marx graduated from the Archaeological Institute with a gold medal and began lecturing at the Department of Paleography. Nikandr Alexandrovich was a multifaceted man. He was fascinated not only by historical research. When his wife Adelaide Valeryevna proposed to collect and record all the legends of the Crimea, he took up this work fervently. Crimea was his ancestral nest. There, not far from the Kara-Dag, in Otuzakh, was the home of his ancestors. "Legends of the Crimea" was first published in the newspaper "Morning of Russia" in 1912 and 1913. The first and second issues were published in separate editions in Moscow in 1912 and in 1913. The last, third, issue of "Legends of Crimea" was published in Odessa in 1917. Nowadays, copies of these first editions are carefully kept in the memorial library of the Voloshin House-Museum in Koktebel. Illustrations for the first issues of "Legends" were made by Konstantin Konstantinovich Artseulov; they decorate this edition. Marx knew Artseulov well, not by chance the first issue of "Legends of the Crimea" he dedicated to his mother - Jeanne Ivanovna. She was the daughter of Aivazovsky, in whose Feodosia house Konstantin spent his childhood. From a young age Konstantin Artseulov was fond of gliding. In 1911 he received an international diploma of pilot-aviator, became an instructor in the Sevastopol Aeroclub and in his free time began to work on drawings for the book Marx's "Legends of the Crimea". He was an excellent draftsman - the genes of the famous grandfather of the marinist and education, which Konstantin Konstantinovich received in the studio of the artist Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon. In the second half of the XX century, illustration became for Artseulov the main occupation in life. In the future, he many years will be the leading artist of the magazine "Technics - Youth", will begin to cooperate with magazines "For Defense", "Wings of the Motherland", "Young Technician" and "Modelist-Konstruktor" and will design more than 50 books. Arceulov will go down in the history of domestic aviation as a pioneer of Soviet gliding and a fearless ace who taught pilots how to get out of the "corkscrew".
In 1907 the Archaeological Institute was opened in Moscow. Among its first students stood out an unusual student - an elderly man in the uniform of a major-general. This was Nikandr Alexandrovich Marx. Maximilian Voloshin, who knew him well, wrote that Marx decided to abruptly change his life as a professional hereditary military man under the influence of Leo Tolstoy's pacifist appeals. Nikandr Alexandrovich went to visit the writer in Yasnaya Polyana, had a long talk with him and soon left the military service. In 1910, shortly before his fiftieth birthday, Marx graduated from the Archaeological Institute with a gold medal and began lecturing at the Department of Paleography. Nikandr Alexandrovich was a multifaceted man. He was fascinated not only by historical research. When his wife Adelaide Valeryevna proposed to collect and record all the legends of the Crimea, he took up this work fervently. Crimea was his ancestral nest. There, not far from the Kara-Dag, in Otuzakh, was the home of his ancestors. "Legends of the Crimea" was first published in the newspaper "Morning of Russia" in 1912 and 1913. The first and second issues were published in separate editions in Moscow in 1912 and in 1913. The last, third, issue of "Legends of Crimea" was published in Odessa in 1917. Nowadays, copies of these first editions are carefully kept in the memorial library of the Voloshin House-Museum in Koktebel. Illustrations for the first issues of "Legends" were made by Konstantin Konstantinovich Artseulov; they decorate this edition. Marx knew Artseulov well, not by chance the first issue of "Legends of the Crimea" he dedicated to his mother - Jeanne Ivanovna. She was the daughter of Aivazovsky, in whose Feodosia house Konstantin spent his childhood. From a young age Konstantin Artseulov was fond of gliding. In 1911 he received an international diploma of pilot-aviator, became an instructor in the Sevastopol Aeroclub and in his free time began to work on drawings for the book Marx's "Legends of the Crimea". He was an excellent draftsman - the genes of the famous grandfather of the marinist and education, which Konstantin Konstantinovich received in the studio of the artist Konstantin Fedorovich Yuon. In the second half of the XX century, illustration became for Artseulov the main occupation in life. In the future, he many years will be the leading artist of the magazine "Technics - Youth", will begin to cooperate with magazines "For Defense", "Wings of the Motherland", "Young Technician" and "Modelist-Konstruktor" and will design more than 50 books. Arceulov will go down in the history of domestic aviation as a pioneer of Soviet gliding and a fearless ace who taught pilots how to get out of the "corkscrew".
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