# cb221 Son of Russia Space Lacquer Box multisigned book

An unusual coffee table style book (1981, 11 pp, hard cover) that pictures, in full colour a whole range of modern Russian lacquer box famous designs inspired by Gagarin and subsequent Soviet achivements in Cosmos.This album is a joint effort of a writter and 3 artists.Text in Russian and english.Albert Likhyanov, the autor is a famous journalist written several books on Comsonautics.The artist come from the famous village of Palekh in the Ivanovo region.For this album the artist have drawn 28 colour plates in the traditional Palekh style. This book presented to General of Rocketery- one of main persons in Baikonur Launch Team Vladimir Katayev from friends, co-workers from launch team and cosmonauts at cosmodrome Baikonur. There are total 10 people signed this book