russian engraving

Can anyone identify this Russian? engraving? Thank you!

 

@Figtree3 ?

 

Artist A. Pavlov, "Winter in the forest", xilography.
2000 items, Combine of Graphic Art of the Moscow Branch of the Art Fund of the USSR.
Price 1 ruble 90 copecks

 

what is figtree3?

 

thanx april07!

 

A member who can translate Russian. The blue indicates that she has been 'tagged', alerted.
But April has done a perfect job, as always. I didn't know you were around, @April07 or I would have tagged you too.

 

thanx any jewelry! yes, April was very helpful!

 

I appear from time to time Hope you are doing better @Any Jewelry! Just learnt today about your story. Prompt recovery!

 

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.

 

Thank you April, I'm working on it.

 

I had never heard of that word -- Looked it up, and it's often spelled xylography in English. Considered a rare word in English: "the art of making woodcuts or wood engravings, especially by a relatively primitive technique." That's the definition that Google gave me.

And, waving "hello" to @April07 !

 

Google or Gogol?

 

donald pleasence nailed it pretty good!

 

You do mean Robert Frost, right?

 

I thought it was by Charles Bronson.

 

bronson was the one being quoted to!

 

Hello, @Figtree3!
In the USSR, xylography was really popular, promoted by such important art theorist and artist as Vladimir Favorsky in the 1930s-1960s. They used a bit different technique that is called in Russian tortsovaya graviura - can't find an equivalent in English, but it's when in the process of preparation of the board, the wood is cut not along its natural lines as in traditional xylography, but across them, and then the small parts are merged together, making the board more lightweight and resistant, and, therefore, able to accommodate more details.