An antique Russian early Soviet childrens book with illustrations, Bear by Ivan Nazhivin, For Pupil Library. Illustrations by Ernest Lissner. Publishers illustrated cover. Publishing House of G. F. Mirimanov, Moscow, 1924. Circulation of 10000 copies. Stamped with a bookplate of Gerzen Institutes Childrens Library, exlibris, and numbered, 81943. Ivan Fedorovich Nazhivin, 1874 to 1940, a Russian writer. Before the revolution, a writer of everyday life in the Russian village, an associate of L. N. Tolstoy; after the revolution he was a prominent writer, historical, fantastic, and other prose, and publicist of the Russian emigration. Ernest Nikolai Johann Ernestovich Lissner, 1874 to 1941, a Russian artist, owner of a private art studio in Moscow. Author of a series of paintings dedicated to the Russian-Polish wars and the Seven Years War. Antiquarian Librarian Books, Collectible Russian Soviet Childrens Books and Magazines.