Academia (publishing house)
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Academia was a Soviet publishing house
prior to fusion with Goslitizdat. The house employed many eminent Russian graphic artists (Nikolai Akimov, Veniamin Belkin
, Leonid Khizhinsky
, Vladimir Konashevich
, Mark Kirnarsky
, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Leo Mülhaupt, Sergei Pozharsky, Pavel Shillingovsky, etc.) and issued over one thousand books during its existence (1922–1937).
to Moscow
, and the woodcut
artists were employed (Vladimir Favorsky
, Andrey Goncharov, Aleksei Kravchenko, Mikhail Pikov, Nikolai Piskarev, Mikhail Polyakov, and Georgy Yecheistov).
Academia failed to accomplish its issuing. Several books, such as Michel de Montaigne
's Essais, Demosthenes
' Orations, Plutarch
's Parallel Lives
, Tacitus
' Annals
or the Divine Comedy, remained unpublished. Additionally, the issuing of a declared 5,300 copies (1935, 492 pages) of Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was cancelled. Only a few examples, that turned a bibliophilic rarity, are known. The last head of Academia was Lev Kamenev
. In 1938-39 Goslitizdat issued several books, marked with “the book was compiled by the publishing house Academia” (“книга подготовлена издательством "Academia").
Publishing houses in the Soviet Union
Publishing houses in the Soviet Union, with the exception of the brief initial period and the period of perestroika before the dissolution of the Soviet Union, were state enterprises under strict ideological control and censorship for the compliance with the communist ideology under the guidelines...
prior to fusion with Goslitizdat. The house employed many eminent Russian graphic artists (Nikolai Akimov, Veniamin Belkin
Veniamin Belkin
Veniamin Pavlovich Belkin was a Russian artist and painter. He made a lot of book artwork and was presented at various exhibitions from 1906, both in the former Soviet Union and abroad ....
, Leonid Khizhinsky
Leonid Khizhinsky
Leonid Semyonovich Khizhinsky was a graphic artist and illustrator of Ukrainian origin. In 1924 the Leningrad publishing houses, most notably Academia, drew Khizhinsky and he ultimately chose the wood engraving...
, Vladimir Konashevich
Vladimir Konashevich
Vladimir Mikhaylovich Konashevich was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator. Among his artwork are scores for Manon Lescaut and Andersen's The Fairy Tales....
, Mark Kirnarsky
Mark Kirnarsky
Mark Abramovich Kirnarsky was a Soviet cover artist of Jewish descent. He belonged to the so-called Petrograd school, distinguished by consistent and scrupulous style...
, Dmitry Mitrokhin, Leo Mülhaupt, Sergei Pozharsky, Pavel Shillingovsky, etc.) and issued over one thousand books during its existence (1922–1937).
History
Academia was founded as a private publishing house at the Petrograd University. It came under the Soviet State Institute of Arts’ History shortly thereafter and was reformed to state publishing joint-stock company. The 1922 edition of The Works of Plato was first to bear Academia’s logo. There are four known alterations of Academia logo (all by Lyubarski), which differ by house’s name placement. In 1929 the publishing house was transferred from LeningradLeningrad
Leningrad is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.Leningrad may also refer to:- Places :* Leningrad Oblast, a federal subject of Russia, around Saint Petersburg* Leningrad, Tajikistan, capital of Muminobod district in Khatlon Province...
to Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
, and the woodcut
Woodcut
Woodcut—occasionally known as xylography—is a relief printing artistic technique in printmaking in which an image is carved into the surface of a block of wood, with the printing parts remaining level with the surface while the non-printing parts are removed, typically with gouges...
artists were employed (Vladimir Favorsky
Vladimir Favorsky
Vladimir Andreyevich Favorsky was a Soviet graphic artist, woodcut illustrator, painter, muralist, and teacher. He was a People's Artist of the USSR from 1963 and a full member of Soviet Academy of Arts from 1962, as well as of the Four Arts society....
, Andrey Goncharov, Aleksei Kravchenko, Mikhail Pikov, Nikolai Piskarev, Mikhail Polyakov, and Georgy Yecheistov).
Academia failed to accomplish its issuing. Several books, such as Michel de Montaigne
Michel de Montaigne
Lord Michel Eyquem de Montaigne , February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592, was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularising the essay as a literary genre and is popularly thought of as the father of Modern Skepticism...
's Essais, Demosthenes
Demosthenes
Demosthenes was a prominent Greek statesman and orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute a significant expression of contemporary Athenian intellectual prowess and provide an insight into the politics and culture of ancient Greece during the 4th century BC. Demosthenes learned rhetoric by...
' Orations, Plutarch
Plutarch
Plutarch then named, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus , c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia...
's Parallel Lives
Parallel Lives
Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Greeks and Romans, commonly called Parallel Lives or Plutarch's Lives, is a series of biographies of famous men, arranged in tandem to illuminate their common moral virtues or failings, written in the late 1st century...
, Tacitus
Tacitus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors...
' Annals
Annals (Tacitus)
The Annals by Tacitus is a history of the reigns of the four Roman Emperors succeeding Caesar Augustus. The surviving parts of the Annals extensively cover most of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The title Annals was probably not given by Tacitus, but derives from the fact that he treated this...
or the Divine Comedy, remained unpublished. Additionally, the issuing of a declared 5,300 copies (1935, 492 pages) of Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky was cancelled. Only a few examples, that turned a bibliophilic rarity, are known. The last head of Academia was Lev Kamenev
Lev Kamenev
Lev Borisovich Kamenev , born Rozenfeld , was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. He was briefly head of state of the new republic in 1917, and from 1923-24 the acting Premier in the last year of Lenin's life....
. In 1938-39 Goslitizdat issued several books, marked with “the book was compiled by the publishing house Academia” (“книга подготовлена издательством "Academia").
Some authors published
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