Mystical drawings Smirnova, Evgenia Ivanova

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I would like to introduce you to the illustrations from a rare edition, the book is written in the style of mystical fiction:
Stereo: Twilight story: [Fantastic Stories] Fig. Smirnova-Ivanova. 1918.
By Alexander P. Ivanov (1876 - 1940) - the art scholar, writer, mathematician, historian of art, modern art department head of the Russian Museum., His brother - Eugene - was a friend of Alexander Blok. The terms of the interests of the family was closely linked with the "World of Art".

Book is illustrated with the author's wife, the artist Yevgeny Smirnov Alekseevna-Ivanov (1875-1970), pupil of N. Roerich. Aunt artist Boris Smirnov-Rusetsky (1905-1993).

Contents: Hero for the fun of becoming a low-cost optical device, and when the evening decided to look at him, then sees him as the Egyptian Hall of the Hermitage, and then gradually "falls" into the picture. It gets into the April 21, 1877, thirty years before the present, and travels through the frozen world of the Hermitage and St. Petersburg XIX century. All the people in this world, frozen in various poses, but one horrible old woman who seems the embodiment of evil spirit in the finals began to pursue the hero of the story, who miraculously returned back to his room. And then in fear of broken stereo, thereby suspending all contact with this wonderful deserted world of the past.