Bolshoi logo, 1963
Nick Shinn
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From the cover of Yuri Slonimsky’s history, published by the Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow, 1963.
Is the decorative device a stylized Б for Bolshoi? The theory being that as there is no S in the Russian alphabet, it would not be mistaken for that letter.
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Could be, a nice catch. Probably script lowercase form that is present in Russian handwriting but not in fonts. Yet it survived as the origin of the "Serbian б"
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it’s just a nice flourish.
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It also represents the swan.Ballet is symbolized by it. And just because the book is in English, the Latin letter S is also used in the logo.1
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I wouldn't have considered for a moment the possibility of the flourish representing a letter of any alphabet. But the fact that the S-curve of the flourish has two circles around it, just where there would be corners in a Б, means that there actually is a possibility.
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