May night, or drowned man. Gogol Nikolay Vasilievich

The famous story of Nikolai Gogol “May Night, or drowned” first saw the light with illustrations of the best, according to Picasso, Russian drawingman. This exclusive collection publication was created specifically for those who are important to organize the text and the visual series.

Gogol was not by chance the beloved writer of the Soviet avant-garde artist Anatoly Zverev: Gogol's expression, a sense of humor, love of the mysterious is clearly close to him. But the Zverev illustrations of the May Night were still stored in archives and private collections and were not available to fans.

Almost four dozen black and white drawings with a feather-the branded handwriting of the master, masterfully owned this technique and sought to capture all the most important, terrible and funny in the text: both the kisses of lovers, and pranks of the pair, and the witch's black soul, And the beauty of the Ukrainian night. The appearance of this book promises to become one of the brightest events of contemporary art.