"Tale of the village priest and his foolish worker, Balda"
A poem by Pushkin, handwritten and illustrated by
Alexandra Pregel

Pregel was also interested in illustrations and illustrated a number of books: the literary journal, House Warming (Novosely), published by poet and translator, Sofia Pregel, the sister of Alexandra’s husband, Boris; the first edition of the New Journal (Novy journal), published by Boris Pregel’s parents, who moved to the United States in the early 1940s; Prince Igor, the ancient Russian literary work; the Bible and the Passover Hagada.

After the death of her husband in 1976, Alexandra stopped painting and participating in exhibitions, but she returned to painting a few years before her own death. She wrote in one of the letters to her niece, Nina Admoni, that painting had given meaning to her life. Alexandra died on June 28, 1984 in New York City.