Love letters of prominent people of the 18th and 19th centuries

The book “Love in the letters of prominent people of the 18th and 19th centuries”, compiled by Anastasia Nikolaevna Chebotarevskaya, gained the status of a genuine literary, artistic and cultural monument of Russian book publishing. The collection contains tender and touching confessions, oaths in eternal love, as well as cynical and sarcastic statements of lovers disappointed in relations. The authors of the letters are outstanding people of the past: Byron, Beethoven, Wagner, Voltaire, Garibaldi, Goethe, Griboedov, Hugo, Edgar Poe, Pushkin, Napoleon, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Flobert, Schiller, Schuman and many others. This collection is an epistolary anthology, a book of confessions, a kind of song of love of outstanding people of the past. He is interesting for his aesthetic diversity and wealth. In the complex dramatic context of our time, when spiritual foundations and ideals collapse, one of the possibilities of comprehending moral values ​​is our perception of such eternal concepts as love, fidelity, self -sacrifice in relations between a man and a woman