Chinese secret

Elena Yakovlevna Danko (1897/1898-1942) was an artist at the legendary Petrograd (then - Leningrad) porcelain factory. And also - the actor -coalist and the author of plays for the puppet theater. And finally (and maybe, first of all) - a writer and a poet. In 1925 S.Ya. Marshak (the former to everything is also an outstanding editor who brought B. Zhitkov, V. Bianchi, E. Schwartz) to Elena Danko to write a book for children that she warmly loves and thoroughly knows about porcelain and about the puppet theater. So, after several small books for very young readers, in 1929 I saw the Light "Chinese Secret" (two years later, in 1931, the story of the puppet theater was also printed - "Wooden Actors") The book was repeatedly reprinted, the "secret" was overgrown with new chapters - these were the political realities of that time. This continued after the death of the author - Elena Yakovlevna died from the consequences of blockade hunger in the winter of 1942.
Our publication restores the first author’s edition of the book and complements it with numerous comments and photographs.
For secondary and senior school age