Photo credit: "Dostoevsky," Ilya Glazunov. 1992 / mos.ru (CC BY 4.0)
The well-known microminiaturist Anatoly Konenko has created created a series of microbooks in honor of Fyodor Dostoevsky's 200th anniversary, TASS reports. Omsk-born artist recalled that his native city played a very important role in the life and work of Dostoevsky. He spent several years there serving a prison sentence.
The cover of one of the books, the artist said, is decorated with fragments of bricks. According to Anatoly Konenko, they were taken from an excavation site at the prison in the Omsk fortress. The book contains the "Crime and Punishment" novel. Its size is 50 by 70 millimeters. Dostoevsky's work is decorated with more than 70 engravings.
Konenko released two more mini copies of "Crime and Punishment." One of them is 55 by 60 millimeters, and the second is almost half the size: 22 by 30 millimeters. The series is complemented by "The House of the Dead" novel. The wooden book covers are decorated with acacia thorns, which bulge in all directions. The texts of the novels are printed in full, but a magnifying glass is required to read them.
Two more copies of the "White Nights" novel are decorated in a walnut shell and in a wooden cover with a carved volumetric portrait of Dostoevsky and with color illustrations.
In 2002, Anatoly Konenko's supermicrobook with Chekhov's short story "Chameleon" measuring 0.9 by 0.9 millimeters was addee to the Guinness Book of Records.
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