Dli︠a︡ maloli︠e︡tnikh di︠e︡teĭ nachinai︠u︡shchikh obuchatʹsi︠a︡ rossīĭskomu chtenīi︠u︡ Azbuka, ili, pervonachalʹnyĭ urok, rukovodstvui︠u︡shchīĭ ikh legchaĭshim sposobom k chtenīi︠u︡ knig
A Russian primer for young children learning to read, printed in Moscow in 1813 by A. Ryeshetnikov's provincial press and drawn from Bible stories and everyday scenes. The woodcuts are small, crisp, and tightly framed, showing a preacher pointing toward a cloud-filled sky, a palm-shaded ruined castle, a flying bird over hills, and animals drinking at a pool, a compact vocabulary of landscape and narrative vignettes a designer could adapt for simple editorial spot illustrations.
