[BORIS KUSTODIEV, ILLUSTRATOR]. SELSKII TRUD, 1925 KUSTODIEV, Boris Mikhailovich, illustrator. Pavlov, Mikhail. Selskii trud [Agricultural Labor]. Leningrad: Brokgauz-Efron, 1925. 4to. 16 pp. Original color lithographed wrappers. Wrappers soiled and reinforced along spine and edges, some pink coloring on title-page vignette and one page reinforced along edge.
Rare Soviet coloring book drawn by the great Russian portrait painter. Boris Kustodiev was one of the few members of the Mir Iskusstva group who successfully made the transition from the Silver Age to the Soviet Era. He embraced the Revolution and painted heroic tributes to the Bolshevik Cause. This Marxist coloring book depicts the heroes and heroines of the Russian peasantry.