An antique early Soviet illustrated childrens book edition titled Rikki Tikki Tavi by Rudyard Kipling, translated from English into Russian by Korney Chukovsky. Includes the appendix Darzis Songs translated by S. Marshak. Designed by S. Vatagin. The second edition. Published by the State Publishing House, Moscow, Leningrad, 1928. Rikki Tikki Tavi is a short story in the 1894 anthology The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling about adventures of a valiant young Indian gray mongoose. Antique Russian Soviet Childrens Books And Bibliophilic Collectibles.