Continuing on with the Penguin “Black Classics” series, tonight I present the Russians.
Firstly, Dostoyevsky.
| 1969 Edition Pierre Blancher in Cheval’s film of Crime & Punishment | 1967 Edition Lithograph by Pierre Barbier |
| 1967 Edition The Student by Larochenko | 1967 Edition Drawing by Repine |
1960 Edition – old style Penguin Classic
Tolstoy
| 1967 Edition Natasha’s First Ball by Leonid Pasternak | 1967 Edition Death of Prince Andrei by Leonid Pasternak |
1965 Edition – Lithograph of the Marble Palace St Petersburg
Turgenev & Gorky
| 1967 Edition Detail from The Aristocrat At Breakfast by P. A. Fedotov | 1967 Edition Russian engraving from 19th Century popular song sheet |
1966 Edition – Detail from a 19th Century Russian lithograph
Next – more “Black Classics”

