Shtil´mark, Robert Aleksandrovich (1909 - 1985)	Naslednik iz Kal´kutty. Roman. M., Izdatel´stvo 'Pravda', 1991. 767 p., ill.	€25,00

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8 vo, publisher´s binding designed by A. V. Lepiatskii. Illustrations by A. Lur´e. VERY GOOD. FIRST EDITION, FIRST RUN IN THIS FORMAT. A historical novel on XVIII century Great Britain by a former Soviet military intelligence officer of Swedish origin. The novel was written in 1950s in Penal concentration camp (Turukhanskii raion, Krasnoyarsk Oblast). Robert Shtilmark was arrested in April 1945 (USSR´s Penal Code, §58, article 10) and spent eight years in GULag. He was exiled to Yeniseisk in 1953 and fully rehabilitated in 1955. The novel was semi-banned for publication in the USSR for thirty years. All four subsequent editions, published in 1989 in Krasnoiarsk, Tashkent, Gorky and Leningrad were sold within a year. Author´s preface included in this edition for the first time since 1958. This preface was omitted in all previous editions, including 1989 Tashkent reissue, according to Feliks Shtil´mark. Afterword by Feliks Robertovich Shtilmark, author´s son and former editor and author of Russian nationalist newspaper and flyers with anti-Semitic undertone of perestroika years (1990-1991). One of the last books printed within frames of 1974 programm 'Books for pulp paper' at CPSU Central Committee´s publishing concern 'Pravda'.The novel was published also in Bulgaria, Poland, Czhechoslovakia and China. See: V mire knig, 1987, #4 and Feliks Shtil´mark´s afterwords to Krasnoiarsk, Gorky and Leningrad editions. P00213