The Rare and Extraordinary History of Holy Russia
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Histoire pittoresque dramatique et caricaturale de la Sainte Russie, d'après les chroniqueurs et historiens Nestor Nikan Sylvestre Karamsin Ségur etc. (1854) is an illustrated political satire by Gustave Doré.
The book features two black illustrations, one in which the Polish plunge Russian deputies in "sombres cachots" another by way of incipit when Russia "se perd dans les ténèbres de l’Antiquité".[1]
A red splodge[2] represents the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
There is also a blank page[3][4] representing a century where nothing happens.
- "The next century being as tedious an affair as the last one, I would be frightened of setting my reader against this book from the start, wearying him with a plethora of dull sketches. However, my publisher, being a conscientious man, has insisted that I leave spaces at this point to show how an astute historian may render all things palatable while excluding nothing."
The format is viewed as an early comic book.
The text was translated by Daniel Weissbort.
Further reading
- Gustave Doré's "Holy Russia" by Bill Kartalopoulos [5]
- Life of Gustave Doré (1891) by Blanchard Jerrold
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