The Nutcracker

The fairy tale by Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" has long become synonymous with the atmosphere of the New Year and Christmas. In Russia, it quickly gained nationwide love. And the music of Pyotr Ilyich... Tchaikovsky, written based on the tale for the ballet of the same name, is now inseparable from the magical story of the brave wooden man. The Petersburg artist Anton Lomaev offers his interpretation of "The Nutcracker". His astonishing illustrations will help you immerse yourself in the fantastic world of Hoffmann's fairy tale, and the commentary for the new edition, written by the artist, will tell about the life and work of this famous representative of German Romanticism.