“Great Artists” - a collection about outstanding masters of painting. The book series contains more than 50 illustrations, an “elegantly written” biography of the artist and the history of the creation of paintings. Mikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel (1856-1910) is the most significant and original exponent of the tendencies of symbolism and modernism in Russian painting and graphics. The work of Mikhail Vrubel is one of the most mysterious and ingenious phenomena of Russian art of the 19th century. Amazing decorativeness, unique tragic and heroic images, as well as the mystical atmosphere of his works distinguish this unique master from the entire galaxy of talented Russian painters.