Images of Italy

Pavel Pavlovich Muratov (1881–1950) - writer, historian, guardian of the department of elegant arts and classical antiquities of the Rumyantsev Museum, a subtle expert on European culture. The writer worked on the book “Images of Italy” for many years, until 1924, when the final edition was published in Berlin. Since then, all new generations of readers have discovered Muratov’s Italy - “Not a tragic or sentimental theater, not a book of memories, not a source of exotic sensations, but the home of our soul. The “images of Italy” first saw the light in 1911-1912, and in 1924 in Berlin they reached the final edition. These are brilliant essays, which are travel notes, and biographies of famous people, and deep thoughts on the history and artistic heritage of Italy