Demons

"Crime and punishment" and "player", he was preparing to take up the main book of his life. But at that time, a revolutionary terrorist movement is rapidly developing in St. Petersburg, resulting in the murder of a student, organized by the leader of the Popular Proparability party, Sergei Nechaev. The understanding of the absurdity and cruelty of such forms of struggle forced Dostoevsky to postpone what he had begun and take up "demons". Today, when the novel is relevant at least 150 years ago, one cannot doubt that Dostoevsky wrote a great book.
Artist Yuri Gershkovich to match Dostoevsky. In his illustrations, the darkness, the abomination and longing of human being are refracted into evil caricature types, juggling with meaning, truth and other people"s lives.
The text is printed according to the publication: Dostoevsky F.M. Poln. Sobr. Op. : in 30 tons of L.: Science, 1974. T. 10, 11. Reconciliation according to the latest lifetime edition (1873) of the novel "Demons" and sources of the text of the chapter "at Tikhon" (proofreading, editing, list) was carried out by S. V. Berezkina