Crime and Punishment

The novel by Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (1821-1881) "Crime and Punishment" became a turning point in the fate of the writer and Russian literature. In this work, the creative principle of the author, termed fantastic realism, is fully revealed. Behind the details of the criminal story and psychological narrative lie ideas about the destiny of man and the possibility of his correction, restoration for a new life.
The complexity of the plot and images of the novel was felt and embodied in his illustrations by Yuri Solomonovich Gershkovich. He created several cycles of drawings for the texts of F.M. Dostoevsky. "Crime and Punishment" is illustrated with thirty-three images. The brokenness of the characters, their suffering, fall into the abyss, discovery of new perspectives, and the St. Petersburg backdrop of the action - all this is reflected in stunning illustrations that are themselves a work of art.