Bird in a cage. Letters 1872-1883

Letters of Vincent Van Gogh are an amazing document, for a hundred years since the first publication that has been enjoying well -deserved interest and admiration for readers. This is the rare case when the literary giftedness, originality of nature and the depth of the author were supplemented by the truly dramatic ups and downs of his biography, reflected in these personal texts. Legendary biographies - like everything connected with the name of Vincent Van Gogh.
The full volume of the artist’s correspondence survived to this day is huge - 820 letters. We represent the reader of the first volume of two -volume anthology - at the moment the most complete of the existing in Russian, where a third of the total number of letters of Vincent Van Gogh will enter, namely those that mention the most significant events of his biographies and where he formulates life and artistic views or commenting on his work. All letters included in the anthology are published without bills and re -translated with facsimile of the original, a number of letters are published in Russian for the first time.
The first volume includes letters dated 1872–1883, the texts of which give us a truly unique opportunity to go after Van Gogh the amazing path that made it the author of the masterly known to the world