VERA MIKHAILOVNA ERMOLAEVA | Illustration for The Strongest of All by Leonid Savelev

Maria Borisovna Kazanskaya (1914-1942), from 1935

Alex Rabinovich, New York

Acquired from the above by the present owner

A.Zainchkovskaya, Vera Ermolaeva, 1893-1937, Moscow: Galeyev Gallery, 2009, pp.152-153 illustrated; p.180, no.833 listed

Leonid Savelev was the penname used by the writer, poet and philosopher Leonid Lipavsky for his books for children the 1920s and 1930s. He was part of the Russian Absurdist movement and associated with the members of OBERIU.