War and Peace. In Two Volumes

The novel "War and Peace" by L. N. Tolstoy created a grand literary canvas about Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. A detailed chronicle of the lives of several noble families, large-scale battle scenes, an accurate portrait of... society with its ideology, philosophy, and everyday life - in all components of the novel, researchers recognize "the highest artistic objectivity." The writer explored the Russian character through the example of several hundred characters. Some of them are historical figures, while others are based on prototypes, including members of Tolstoy's family. The writer used an incredible amount of historical sources, archival materials, family traditions, and memoirs, from which a whole library was assembled.

This edition returns to the reader the classic illustrations by Dementy Alexeevich Shmarinov, which are part of the golden fund of domestic book graphics. Incredibly vivid, created as if from life, they are in amazing harmony with the text of one of the central works of world literature.