SEMEONOFF, Anna H.. (Hartog) - Brush Up Your Russian (Osvezhite Svoi Russkii). With Illustrations by P.R. Ward. Conversations of Real Use. General Editor W.G. Hartog.

London, J. M. Dent, 1945. Further revised edition. Decorated cloth in original unclipped green dust-wrapper. Endpaper maps, x+101pp. charming b/w illustrations throughout. A very good, clean tight copy. Crisp and clean. Humorous drawings and quaint phraseology depict a studiously uncritical portrayal of "abroad" during the inter-war period. The Brush Up series, first published in Rothermere's Daily Mail, is a fascinating reflection of certain British perspectives at the time.Anna Semeonoff, author of a number of Russian textbooks was also a tutor at the JSSL where the Russian teachers tended to be either White Russian émigrés or carefully vetted Soviet defectors. .