Author: SEMEONOFF, Anna H.. (Hartog)
Title: Brush Up Your Russian (Osvezhite Svoi Russkii). With Illustrations by P.R. Ward. Conversations of Real Use. General Editor W.G. Hartog.
Description: London, J. M. Dent, 1941. Revised edition. Decorated cloth in original unclipped green dust-wrapper. Endpaper maps, x+101pp. charming b/w illustrations throughout. In excellent condition, near fine and unused. Crisp and clean. Remains of contemporary price-sticker. 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. .

Keywords: Russian|Featured|Russia|Soviet Union|Illustrated|Phrase-Book|World War II


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