Golike R. & Vilborg A. – joint stock artistic and book publication partnership.

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"Golike R. & Vilborg A." – joint stock artistic and book publication partnership.

The partnership was founded in Saint-Petersburg in 1903 by Roman Romanovitch Golike and Artir Ivanovitch Vilborg, who amalgamated their typography and photozincography, thus establishing one of the best polygraph enterprises in Russia. To the book design the publishers engaged such artists and illustrators as A.N. Benua, I.Y. Bilibin, I.E. Grabar, E.E. Lansere, G.I. Narvbut, L.O. Pasternak and other.

In total more than 50 editions were published, which embraced the real masterpieces of the book art: the "Hadzi Murat" by L.N. Tolstoy, designed and illustrated by E.E. Lansere, "The Tsar Village During the Reign of the Empress Yekaterina Petrovna" of A.N. Benua, "The Queen of Spades" by A.S. Pushkin with illustrations of A.N. Benua, "Eugene Onegin" by A.S. Pushkin with illustrations of E. Samokish-Sudkovskaya.

In 1918 the Publishing House was nationalized.