[ABKHAZIAN FAIRY TALES / SUKHUMI IMPRINT] Абхазские сказки / Abkhazinskie skazki [i.e., Abkhazian fairy tales]

BGAZHBA, KH[UKHUT] S[OLOMONOVICH] (1914-2000). Izdanie Alashara, Sukhumi, 1976. Original pictorial cloth. Demy 8vo. (21 x 15 cm). In Russian. 314 p., b/w ills. Early Russian edition of this Abkhazian fairy tales compiled by famous Abkhaz linguist Bgazhba.  “Khutkhutwas born on October 15, 1914, in the village of Gup, Ochamchira district (at that time - Kodor district) in the family of a well-known person in Abzhuy Abkhazia, Saluman (Solomon) Bgazhba and Matia Kapba. There is a heroic song about Saluman that the people composed after Khuhut’s father avenged the murder of his older brother. This folklore and history itself have survived to the present day. After leaving school in Abkhazia, Khukhut Bgazhba entered the historical and philosophical faculty of the Moscow Pedagogical Institute, which he graduated in 1937 and returned to Abkhazia as a young writer, who had already written many literary essays and articles by that time. In Sukhum, at the time of the return of Khukhut Solomonovi