The Blue Cup is a 1936 Russian language short story written by the Soviet author Arkady Gaidar (1904 - 1941). The story, first published in the January 1936 issue of Pioneer magazine, was released by Detizdat Publishers as a book with illustrations by Boris Dekhteryov (1936). In 1940 Gaidar added "Blue Cup" into two of his compilations, Rasskazy ("Short Stories", Detizdat) and Moyi Tovarishchi ("M... Wikipedia