Schachfiguren im Wandel der Zeit, Isaak Maxowitsch Linder, 288 p.
On the basis of an in depth analysis of museum and private collections, the late chess historian Isaak M. Linder describes the evolvement of chess pieces in Russia from the Afrasiab chess pieces of the 7th century until the Soviet chess pieces of modern times. The book was published in 1994 and is illustrated with more than 250 coloured and b/w pictures.