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MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009. 1. Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938. image 1
MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009. 1. Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938. image 2
MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009. 1. Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938. image 3
MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009. 1. Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938. image 4
Lot 36

MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009.
1.
Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938.

4 June 2014, 13:00 EDT
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MIKHALKOV, SERGEI VLADIMIROVICH. 1913-2009.

1. Misha Korolkov. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1938. Signed in ink on the title page.
2. Krasnyi flot [The Red Ship]. Moscow and Leningrad: Detizdat, 1939.
Inscribed in ink on the front wrapper to Aleksei Eliseevich Kruchenykh, May 3, 1940.
3. Stikhi dlya detei [Poems for Children]. GIZ, 1950.
Inscribed by the author in color pencil on the front free endpaper to Kote (Konstantin) Tikhonovich Topuridze, February 14, 1957.
WITH: KONCHALOVSKAYA, NATALYA. Chto sluchilos [What Happened]. Detgiz, 1945.
Illustrated in color by N. Ushakova. Inscribed in ink by the author on the title page to the actress Rina (Ekaterina) Vasilevna Zelenaya.
Provenance: R.V. Zelenaya, Moscow.

IMPORTANT GROUP OF SIGNED SOVIET CHILDREN'S BOOKS. Mikhalkov was an important Soviet children's book writer best known for his 1935 poem about "Dyadya Stepa" [Uncle Stepa]. He was also secretary of the Soviet Writers' Union when Boris Pasternak and later Alexander Solzhenitsyn were persecuted. When he was only 29, Stalin was so impressed with Mikhalkov's verse that he commissioned him to write the lyrics for the new Soviet national anthem. They were revised after Stalin's death in 1953 and Boris Yeltsin retired it in 1991. Vladimir Putin then revived yet another revised version in 2001. N. Konchalovskaya was S. Mikhalkov's wife and mother of the film directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andrei Konchalovskaya. Both husband and wife at one time worked for the KGB.

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