Tsarist Embassy. Soloviev V.S.

The history of the development of literature is a much more extensive concept than we can assume, and much more complicated than the student of the Faculty of Philology can imagine. Continuously, any choice of “best books” and “mandatory readers” of writers is accompanied by a merciless cut of the pearls from the approved norm and the “golden standard”. There are many geniuses recognized and unrecognized, and masterpieces of world literature, the books of the World Classics Books series are an attempt to expand the concept of classical books and obligatory authors that have established in the minds, offering the reader of works that he did not hear about at all, Or a sign very from afar. However, the works presented in the series are some kind of milestone stages on the difficult path of development of world literature, without which it is difficult to make ideas about various genres, literary schools and whole eras of the development of world culture. Litovchenko “The Italian Messenger of Kalvucci sketches the favorite falcons of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich”, 1889, Kharkov Art Museum.