Published in Moscow in 1946 by the Foreign Languages Publishing House. This was a state-run publisher in the Soviet Union that published Russian literature, novels, propaganda, and books about the USSR in foreign languages.Tales of Sevastopol is a handsomely-produced printing of Tolstoy\'s startling look at the hard life during a war in the mid-1800s Russian city of that name. Hardback, wheat-colored cloth boards with black cloth backing. Embossed image and lettering to front. Illustrated dust jacket - some losses but serviceable. Plain endpapers with some browning evident. Pictorial frontis together with other illustrations within text n black, white & green, some of which are plates and others printed on text pages. Text block good. Text and images clear and unmarked. 165pp