Album of Gogol's types. 1889. According to the drawings of the artist P. Boklevsky.

Album of Gogol's types. 1889. According to the drawings of the artist P. Boklevsky.
St. Petersburg. Printing house of Eduard Goppe, 1889 – - [4] p., 30 l. ill., [2] p. Hardcover with blint and gold-embossed lettering, art flyleaf, painted cut-off; encyclopedic format (23 x 31 cm). The binding is worn and dirty; there are significant temporary and everyday stains on the pages; there is no free flyleaf; there are splits in the block.

[The draughtsman, painter and lithographer P. M. Boklevsky (1818-1897) is considered one of the best Russian book graphics of the second half of the XIX century. He didn't find his calling right away. It took six years of study at the law Faculty of Moscow University before Boklevsky made his final choice between an official career and art: in the early 1840s, he began to take painting lessons from A. E. Yegorov, for some time attended the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, studied in the studio of K. P. Bryullov. Then there was a trip to Europe to improve his artistic skills: sessions at the Latour and Vidal School in Paris, work in the open air in Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Germany, and France. Actually, after returning to his homeland, Boklevsky's path as a professional artist began. The drawings made by him began to be placed on their pages by popular illustrated publications. There were private orders - portraits. However, the real fame of Boklevsky brought illustrations to the works of A. N. Ostrovsky, I. S. Turgenev, P. I. Melnikov-Pechersky, F. M. Dostoevsky. The most famous of his work is repeatedly republished the series of paintings "the types of Gogol's "Dead souls".]