Sketches of the Soviet Union

170 pp. Illustrated with drawings by the author. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "Anton Refregier (March 20, 1905 – October 10, 1979) a painter and muralist active in Works Progress Administration Federal Art Project commissions, and in teaching art. He was a Russian immigrant to the United States. He is known, among other works, for his mural "The History of California" located in the Rincon Center, in downtown San Francisco, California. It depicts the state's history across twenty seven panels that he painted from 1940 to 1948."--Wikipedia. "This book is a result of six visits to the Soviet Union between 1959 and 1974. In those years I visited Azerbaijan, the Ukraine, Georgia, and several cities of the Russian Federation."--Preface