A beggar from the art bridge

Over the almost two centuries, who passed after the death of the great German writer Wilhelm Gauf (1802-1827), we have been akin to such heroes of his fairy tales as little torment, Caliph-Aist, dwarf nose.
In the collection of the Novels of the Gauf "Beggar from the Bridge of the Arts", strong passions boil, the imagination of fatal secrets excites, works of literature and art have a huge impact on real life. The unusual love of the heroes of the novel "Nedchenka from the Bridge of Arts" ultimately ends with their happy compound, the long -forgotten squabbles between the Teutons and Poles for the lands of ancient Prussia served as the basis for the novels "The Last Knights of Marienburg", which historically lost the emperor Napoleon became a lady in the disputes of the characters short stories "Portrait of the Emperor". And in "Fantasies on the topic of the drink, the author allows himself even a slight blasphemy, turning the apostles of the Lord into regulars of the zucchini. One of the characters of Gauf concludes a deal with the devil, not for the sake of gaining immortality, power over the world or knowing the final truths of being, and in order to ... There is always a drink at hand.

It seems to me that both fairy tales and the novels of Gauf ... exist in some magical space, which in itself does not require any geographical or topographic signs.
This is an atmosphere of a miracle. This commonality of extraordinary was continued in the history of the world tale "
Veniamin Kaverin

Fragments of the work
artists L.-- Buay and F. Nasha