From Dvina to Murgab. The paths and paths of the animal artist. Formozov A.

Alexander Nikolaevich Formozov (1899–1973), a wonderful naturalist, an ecologist, nature guard, a wide reader is most known as the author and at the same time the illustrator of his scientific and popular books: “The Punner satellite”, “Six Days in the Forests”, "Among nature." This album, prepared after the album published in 2018 “From Murman to Amur. Travels of an animal artist ”, continues to get acquainted with the artistic heritage of Alexander Nikolayevich Formosov, previously little-known. In it, the author illustrated stories about work as a graduate of the gymnasium in the Northern Dvina in 1917, on traveling in the Student years to the Caucasus (1923–1925), on research in Kazakhstan in the 1930-1940s, on acquaintance with the nature of Turkmenistan during evacuation in 1942. Drawings accompany quotes from diaries, letters and works of Formozov. In total, the album has about 500 drawings, the vast majority of them are published for the first time. The book includes about a third of the artistic archive of the author.