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Anonymous : Tallinn

(Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, no date)

12mo; cloth-backed pictorial lacquered boards, enclosing accordian-fold series of lacquered, photographic images of scenes and public buildings from the Soviet era in the Estonian capital; there are descriptive captions in several languages on the reverse side of each picture. Trace of foxing to fore-edge. Very good condition. There are thirty-two colour postcard-size photographs in all. Some examples: View of the Lower and the Upper town from the Oleviste Church tower; Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian S.S.R., Kadriorg; Council of Ministers of the S.S.R.; Monument to V. I. Lenin in Lenin Boulevard; House of Art of the Estonian S.S.R.; Town-Hall (14th-15th cent.); Monument to Viktor Kingissepp (1888-1922), an organiser and leader of the Communist Party of Estonia; Arts Museum of the Estonian S.S.R. (former Kadriorg Palace); Swan Lake in Kadriorg Park.