Russian tales. Illustrations of Ivan Bilibin

Russian tales and epics are the unchanged and deep foundation on which they were brought up in childhood and entire generations of our compatriots will be brought up for a long time. The collection that you hold in your hands includes seventeen classic Russian fairy tales and six epics. Among them are stories about Ivan-Tsarevich, the Tsarevna-Floor, the Gray-Wolk, Vasilisa the Beautiful, Ilya Muromets and many more well-recognized characters. They almost always appear in any collections of Russian fairy tales. The peculiarity of this publication is different. All illustrations in it are made by such a recognized virtuoso of the ornament and drawing, an excellent master of color, a magnificent illustrator and designer of books like Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin. It is they who give this book a unique flavor, because it will not be an exaggeration to say that the surprising world of Russian fairy tales and its heroes we in many ways imagine precisely thanks to the unique drawings of this talented artist