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There is nothing quite like the set and costume designs coming from the Soviet Union in the 1920’s, and this collection of work by Anatol Petrizky (described below) attests to that. My interest is more in the design of the sets than in the costumes–and so far as I can determine none of those (reproduced in black and white) have yet been on the net. (This book is also offered for sale in the blog’s bookstore.) 

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PETRIZKY, Anatol (1895-1964). [B. Chmury]  Anatol Petrizky, Theatre-Trachten.  [Anatol Petrizky Teatralni Stroi] Iintroductory essay by V. Khmury (Chmury).  [Soviet Union]: StaatsVerlag der Ukraine, 1929. One of 1500 unnumbered copies.  Design and images by Anatol Petrizky, text by B. Chmury.

 This book was published in Ukraine in 1929; although this is not the time or place (I really just wanted to post about this book as a beautiful artistic piece of work), I could not let it pass without at least mentioning what man-made disasters lie ahead for the Ukrainian SSR and for the resst of the Soviet Union.