A. Mantel. Publisher, writer, artist, collector

Petorn Petersburg, Alexander Ferdinandovich Martel spent most of his life in the province. Life tied it with Kazan, Ivanovo-Voznesenskaya and Kostroma provinces, where he became the ashistant of many important undertakings in cultural life. And yet - Petersburg, his fiction, artists of the unification of the world of art remained the main in his fate. The result of joint activities with the writers and artists of the Northern capital was the artistic publications organized by the exhibitions organized by Martel. He showed his talent and mobility in the literature, in the chart, in promoting art and in the struggle for the preservation of artistic antiquity monuments. The collection of its graphic works decorated the artistic collections of Kazan.
Correspondence A.F.manteli, his literary and artistic legacy enriched with new, interesting materials that complement the ideas about the artistic life of Russia of the first third of the 20th century.

In writing a book, a large array of archival sources and printed documents was used