War and Peace. In 4 volumes. Volume 1

The novel "War and Peace" L. N. Tolstoy created a grand literary canvas about Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. A detailed chronicle of the life of several noble families, large -scale battal scenes, an accurate portrait of society with its ideology, philosophy, signs of everyday life - in all components of the novel, researchers recognize the "highest artistic objectivity" of the author. The writer investigated the Russian character on the example of several hundred characters. Some of them are historical persons, part - created on the basis of prototypes, including family members of Tolstoy himself. The writer used an incredible number of historical sources, archival materials, family traditions, memoirs, from which a whole library was collected.
With this publication, the classic illustrations of Dementia Alekseevich Shmarinov, included in the gold fund of domestic book graphics, return to the reader. Incredibly alive, made as if from nature, they are in amazing harmony with the text of one of the central works of world literature