GAW Traugott. Plate, Tell me, night, why is your quiet darkness more joyful to me..., L. 18 cm, porcelain, collectible condition.
One of the shortest poems by Alexander Pushkin:
"Tell me, night, why is your quiet darkness
I'm happier..." 1825.
It was not published during Pushkin’s lifetime.
Autograph in notebook LB No. 2370, l. 56 rev. Published by V. E. Yakushkin in the description of Pushkin’s manuscripts - “Russian Antiquity” 1884, July, p. 30. Printed by autograph. Dated presumably 1-25 January 1825. Published 1884 (see above).
The collected works of Pushkin include, starting with the edition edited by. Vengerova, 1908. (D. B.)
Artists G. A. V. Traugott
created illustrations for more than 200 books. Their illustrations for fairy tales by H. C. Andersen are most famous. In their design, the fairy tales were reprinted 17 times, and the total circulation of these publications exceeded three million copies. They also illustrated the following works: “Tales of Mother Goose”, “Fairy Tales” and “Bluebeard” by Charles Perrault, “Cuban Tales”, “Tales of Cambodia”, “The Iliad” and “Odyssey” by Homer, “The Science of Love” by Ovid, “ The Golden Donkey" by Apuleius, fairy tales by E. T. Hoffmann, "Little Tragedies", "Dubrovsky" and other works by A. S. Pushkin, "Dangerous Neighbor" by V. L. Pushkin, the novel "The Master and Margarita" by Mikhail Bulgakov, Russian classics , poems by A. I. Vvedensky, fairy tales by B. Sergunenkov, Russian fairy tales, and much more.