Russian Culture Abroad: Illustrations for Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel "The Idiot" on display in Italy

In 2019 the Russian Center (the Borodina Center for Development of Relations between the Autonomous Province of Bolzano and Russia) in Merano (Italy) is celebrating its 10th birthday. The central cultural event of celebrations is the exhibition of book illustrations for F. M. Dostoevsky’s novel The Idiot from the collections of the Dal State Museum of the History of Russian Literature (Moscow) and the Dostoevsky Literary Memorial Museum (St. Petersburg).

The exhibition presents illustrations made by Russian artists of the 20th–21st centuries for the famous novel. These are works created by outstanding artists-illustrators, such as V. Sulimo-Samuillo, L. Feinberg, S. Shor, I. Glazunov and others.