Petersburg by F.M. Dostoevsky In illustrations by M.V. Dobuzhinsky
In 2021, the 200th anniversary of the birth of the great Russian writer Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky will be celebrated. In this article, the author examines graphic works and illustrations of the outstanding Russian graphic artist Mstislav Dobuzhinsky to the works of Dostoevsky. Thanks to Dobuzhinsky’s drawings, the reader becomes a spectator at the same time, and Dostoevsky’s vivid images are fixed graphically and acquire additional meanings. Twilight, night Petersburg becomes the main character of Dobuzhinsky’s illustrations. In the search for white in black - Dobuzhinsky’s attitude to St. Petersburg: an inconvenient city, an unfriendly city, a harsh city, but forever beloved.