BEZRUC, Petr: SLEZSKE PISNE.
Cover, illustrations and initials Petr Pistelka. Printing Josef Koudelka.
Yekaterinburg, Odbocka Ceskoslovenske Narodni rady v Rusku, 1918.
8°, 128 pp. Contemporary full cloth binding. Decorative lettering and two vignettes on spine. Decorative lettering in decorative frame on front board. Blind printing, gilding. Red upper edge.
Black and red lithographic print, illustrated title page and 53 initials. All pages with yellow-brown lithographic underprint. - Inscription in pencil behind front endpaper in Cyrillic and Latin: "Yekaterinburg, December 1919". - Slightly faded colour to spine and top of front board. Some stains in book block caused by lithographic printing - both drops and blurred edges. Paper of double sheets in front and back endpapers browned. - Collector's condition. - Language: Czech.
<ID:BIB67048> Price: 2200,- CZK

Petr Pistelka (July 14, 1887, Svabenice, Austria-Hungary - July 22, 1963, Svabenice, Czechoslovakia)
Czech painter, graphic artist, illustrator, ...
Study: Akademie vytvarnych umeni, Praha, prof. Hanus Schwaiger, Maximilian Pirner and Vlaho Bukovac.
Selected Memberships: Sdruzeni vytvarnych umelcu moravskych
Selected representation in collections: Pamatnik odboje, Praha
Selected Exhibitions: 1928, Ceskoslovenske vytvarne umeni 1918 - 1928, Brno; 2008, Pole tvurci a valecna, Místodrzitelsky palac, Brno.
Selected Literature: 1993, Novy slovnik ceskoslovenskych vytvarnych umelcu (vol. 2; L - Z),Vytvarne centrum Chagall, Ostrava; 2003 SlovnIk ceskych a slovenskych vytvarnych umelcu 1950 - 2003 (XI. Pau - Pop), Vytvarne centrum Chagall, Ostrava.

Petr Pistelka - legionnaire
As a soldier of the 8th Infantry Regiment in Brno he deserted in June 1916 of the eastern war front to Russian captivity. He spent about a year in the prison camp. In August 1917 he joined the Czechoslovak Legion. In mid-August 1918 he was sent to Yekaterinburg, where the education department of the National Council was located. Here, together with Josef Koudelka (1877-1960), he contributed to the publication of Bezruc's Slezske pisne. The book was very popular among the legionnaires, so the Epigramy of Karel Havlíček Borovský followed.

Czechoslovak Legionnaires in Yekaterinburg
In July 1918, Tsar Nicholas II and his family were executed here by the Bolsheviks. A few days later the town was captured by Czechoslovak legionaries. For one year, Yekaterinburg became an important centre for Czechoslovak troops. The headquarters of the Siberian Army, a consulate, a branch of the Czechoslovak National Council, Czechoslovak hospitals were built here, ...