Basov-Verkhoyantsev S. Horse-racing. Russian fairy tale. Kiev: Palace, 1917. Printed by order of Agityuz. Paper binding, reduced format. [Political pamphlet in verse] The history of the publication of this fairy tale is of great literary and political interest. The tale was decided to release the revolutionary publishing house Paspopov without any changes in December 1906. Taking on a misunderstanding of the "horse" for the famous Ershov fairy tale ("horse-hunchback"), the police did not prevent its spread for a long time. There are memories that literate peasants refused to buy the Ershov "horse-hunchback", demanding "real". Circulars were urgently sent out to all the provinces of Russia, offering to immediately identify and withdraw from the sale of the Skate-Duck. The stereotype was destroyed, available copies were seized and destroyed. The prosecutor of the Moscow court chamber was arrested and the book was sentenced to destruction. For the extradition of its author, a reward was announced. The police also took measures to establish the location of the publishing house and to establish authorship, for any information, a monetary reward was promised. Due to the fact that the title of the book was disguised as a popular fairy tale by Ershov "Hurricane Horse", the censored history of this book turned out to be noisy. Attempts were made to bring to justice soldiers who read "Horse..." aloud in the barracks. The book was actively used by revolutionaries for agitation and propaganda purposes, especially among the poorest peasants and soldiers of the tsarist army. The authorities knew about this and severely punished anyone who dared to take up arms and read "Horse-Horse". In November 1907, for example, the commander of the troops of the Moscow military district, according to the newspaper, “approved the submission of the military prosecutor about the surrender to the military court of the bombardier of the 2nd artillery brigade Zubrikov for reading the fairy tale” Horse Jumper ”and the private Newingermanland regiment of Livshits for blaming the government and the Cossacks for the participation of the latter in suppressing popular unrest.” The author is Sergey Alexandrovich Basov, a member of the Combat Organization of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, a participant in the failed assassination attempt on the Minister of Internal Affairs, General V. Trepov (1904, under the leadership of M.I. Schweitzer). In 1887, he led a strike at the Tula iron foundry Baitsurova, led an active propaganda of revolutionary ideas among the workers. In 1889 he was first arrested in Tula, in 1893 - in Kiev, in 1895 - in Kharkov. In 1896 S. A. Basov was arrested and deported for eight years to Yakutia, to the Verkhoyansky District. Hence the literary pseudonym - Verkhoyantsev. The poem was published by the SR publisher V. Raspopov. "Konek..." withstood many reprints in the uncensored time of 1917. Condition: defects in the photo (sent on request), no pp.55-56