The Tale of Hodja Nasreddin

The cheerful rogue Hodja Nasreddin became a true symbol of Uzbekistan thanks to the writer Leonid Soloviev. In the 1920s, Soloviev worked as a correspondent for the newspaper «Pravda Vostoka» and passionately collected Central Asian folklore. The legends and tales about Hodja Nasreddin that he recorded formed the basis of the lively story of the trickster «Disturber of the Peace» and the philosophical-lyrical — «The Enchanted Prince». The graphic illustrations by the artist
Stanislav Zabaluev made the image of Nasreddin canonical.