‘The Babel Tower and other ancient legends’: history of edition

Abstract

The history of the publication of the Bible’s retelling ed. by K. I. Chukovsky is restored in the article of Olga Simonova “‘The Babel Tower and other ancient legends’: history of edition” based on archival materials. O. Simonova cite unpublished correspondence of the authors of the collection “The Babel Tower and other ancient legends”, including the unknown letters of K. I. Chukovsky. The approach of the artist L. E. Feinberg to illustration of this book is elucidated. The edition was printed at the beginning of 1968, and in the end of that year was destroyed; the prohibition of the book was provoked by the foreign
policy situation.

Key words: retelling of the Bible for children, destroyed edition, publishing house “Detskaia literatura”, Kornei Chukovskii, Leonid Feinberg, illustration of children's books, correspondence.