ABC. Stories from ABC

In 1872, L. N. Tolstoy, the first edition of the “alphabet”, which the Great Classic created with special care and the dream that Russian children “would learn from it ... And the first poetic impressions will receive poetic from it”. Illustrations of A.F. Pakhomov (1900-1973), which made up the real edition, were born a century, stories and the so-called pages from the ABC, the artist selected himself: “I wanted to put everything beautiful in my soul and I wanted to invest in the drawings of this book and In my memory of the wonderful time of my barefoot peasant childhood, which coincided with the last years of L. N. Tolstoy’s life. ” The appearance and clothes of people, household items, the decoration of the peasant house - all this was familiar with A.F. Pakhomov firsthand, and today his charming images of peasant children continue to introduce large and small readers with the past of the Russian people.

“It is necessary that everything is beautiful, briefly, simply and, most importantly, clear,” this principle laid the basis of his “alphabet” Leo Tolstoy. The stories that made up the real collection are located in it from the simplest miniatures to such independent works as “Bone”, “Leo and Dog”, “Filippok”, etc., which have become children"s classics for all times