Favorite fairy tales in the masterpieces of Russian illustration

Not only Russian fairy tales, but also the overseas were in the focus of the attention of masters of Russian book graphics of the XIX - early XX centuries. It turns out that the brilliant Ivan Bilibin illustrated G.-Kh. Andersen and the history of Scheherazada. And the virtuoso Boris Zvorykin turned the German “Peter Loach” into the Russian “Styopka-Strakeka”-one of the most published children's books in Russia.

, in the meantime, the whole gallery of fairy-tale images of Russian folk tales (more than thirty !) Created one of the most talented illustrators of the book publishers of Ivan Sytin and Joseph Knebel, artist Anatoly Neruchev.

These and other books have long been a collection rarity and classic, to evaluate the undeniable virtues of which our publication is given. Most of the illustrations presented in it return for the first time in a century.

editor-compiler Kuzmin V.V.