The article accompanying this publication says that Svetlana Akatieva, as a child, loved to read a book about the unimaginable exploits of the baron. She even made sketches of the most exciting episodes. These children's drawings on sheets of school notebooks were kept in an old, almost fairy-tale chest with a rusty lock. Years passed, the girl grew up, graduated from the Kharkov Academy of Design and Arts and became a professional artist. One day, among the things forgotten in the attic, Svetlana discovered a chest with her childhood pictures for “Munhausen” and decided to use them to create new illustrations in mixed media: watercolors, colored pencils, ink and gouache.
And now, from the cover of a book of a cozy square format, the fearless traveler and consummate storyteller Munchausen looks at us, slyly squinting. The Baron has a long straight nose and lush protruding noses. different sides mustache. On the back cover, the curls of his powdered wig transform into the cratered silver surface of the Moon. And the stalk of the Turkish bean, on which Munchausen first reached the Moon, is woven into the lace of the collar of his camisole.
The design of the book is thought out to the smallest detail and creates a feeling of harmony. The illustrations are presented in a single color scheme: turquoise predominates in all its richness of shades and the color of baked milk. An attentive eye will notice many different echoes. For example, on one of the endpapers there is a picture of a cannon with a cannonball just flying out of it, on the other - a deer with branched antlers, which are hung with cherries. The reader will encounter both in the illustrations. Svetlana Akatieva also came up with a special font, Ackat, for the design of titles, for which she received a third-degree diploma at the All-Russian competition of student font works.
The book contains quite a few full-page drawings that match the ironic style of the narrative. How do you like the furious fur coat, which with its toothy sleeve is trying to bite Munchausen’s finger? Or the delightfully pimply crocodile that, in front of the tiny baron cowering in fear, swallowed the shaggy head of a lion? Some illustrations are laid out horizontally or vertically - as a result, entire episodes from the entertaining stories of the brave and resourceful baron literally come to life before the reader's eyes.
Here Munchausen is sitting in the snow in smart red boots, clearly inappropriate in the frosty Russian winter. He settled down for the night, tying his horse to a small post sticking out of a snowdrift. We lay out the picture - and the horse ends up on the roof of the bell tower, around which the surprised residents of the village, which had thawed out overnight, crowded together.
So, fleeing from the Turks, Munchausen got stuck in a swamp with his horse. He pulls himself up by his skinny pigtail; the horse grabs the cuff of his master's jacket with his teeth. We unfold the page and see how they rose above the swamp. The Baron in a well-tailored patterned camisole with a lace shirtfront - as they say, he came out unscathed. And only the leaves of water lilies stuck to the horse’s sides and the frog on his nose remind him of what happened.
But the ship with Munchausen on board near America ran into an underwater rock. After unfolding the page, we discover that it is not a rock, but “a whale of colossal size that was dozing peacefully on the water.” Keith frowns, looks with an angry eye - he is clearly terrible in anger. In this state, this giant can really drag a ship by its anchor across the ocean from morning to night.
Korney Chukovsky (by the way, the author of a brilliant retelling of stories about Munchausen) wrote in his book “From Two to Five” that children are very fond of all sorts of fables. This is for them mind game, helping to consolidate the “correct” ideas about the structure of the world. Little readers find the baron's unprecedented boasting funny, and they are glad that they were able to “unravel” his intricate fantasies. “Here is their combat duel with Munchausen, a duel from which they invariably emerge victorious every time... This increases their self-esteem: “Yeah, you wanted to deceive us, you attacked the wrong people!”
How wonderful it is that in Svetlana Akatieva’s house there is an old chest with her childhood drawings. And therefore, with all the artistic skill, her illustrations for Munchausen are filled with vivid and immediate impressions from childhood. Chukovsky called this funny book “an appetizing delicacy for children,” and in such a design, which creates a lot of additional features for the game, it will bring even more joy to the readers.
At the end of the book we see a self-portrait of the artist: a girl flies over a lake in which strange fish swim, and from a bird's eye view tries to see the small figure of Munchausen on horseback. She smiles at him like an old friend.
Ksenia Zernina
Photo by Elena Oberemok
I really like Munchausen Vladimir Lyubarov!
I wonder if such a book was published or if the illustrations were printed only in the form of postcards?
E.Raspe. "The ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN" Set of postcards.
(“Fine Arts”, 1978, ill. V. Lyubarova)
I hit myself in the right eye with my fist as hard as I could. Sparks fell from the eye, and the gunpowder burst into flames at the same instant. 
Suddenly - you can imagine my amazement! - the ducks flew into the air and lifted me to the clouds.
Anyone else in my place would be at a loss, but I am a brave and resourceful person.
I made a rudder out of my coat and, steering the ducks, quickly flew towards the house. 
I slowly approached the fox and began to whip her with a whip.
She was so stunned by pain that - would you believe it? - jumped out of her skin and ran away from me naked. 
Imagine my amazement when a magnificent deer jumped out of the thicket of the forest right at me, with a tall, spreading cherry tree growing between its antlers! Oh, believe me, it was very beautiful: a slender deer with a slender tree on its head! 
I pointed my horse at the window and, like a whirlwind, flew into the dining room.
The ladies were very scared at first. But I made the stallion jump onto the tea table and pranced so skillfully among the glasses and cups that I did not break a single glass or even the smallest saucer. 
Now the entire body of my horse was hidden in the stinking mud, now my head began to sink into the swamp, and only the braid of my wig sticks out from there.
What was to be done? We would certainly have died if not for the amazing strength of my hands. I'm a terrible strongman. Grabbing myself by this pigtail, I pulled upward with all my might and without much difficulty pulled myself and my horse out of the swamp, which I squeezed with both legs, like tongs. 
It turned out that the entire back part of my horse was cut off completely, and the water that he drank flowed freely behind him, without lingering in his stomach. 
With one hand I slid along the rope, and with the other I held the hatchet.
But soon the rope ended, and I hung in the air, between heaven and earth. 
The lion, rushing at me at the moment when I was falling to the ground, flew over me and fell straight into the mouth of the crocodile! 
Suddenly I see a huge fish with a wide open mouth swimming right at me! What was to be done? It is impossible to escape from her, and so I shrank into a ball and rushed into her gaping mouth, in order to quickly slip past the sharp teeth and immediately find myself in the stomach. 
My dear Munchausen! - exclaimed the Sultan. “I’m used to believing every word you say, because you are the most truthful person on earth, but I swear that now you are telling a lie: there is no better wine than this!” 
Where are you going? - I asked him. - And why did you tie these weights to your feet? because they interfere with running!
“Three minutes ago I was in Vienna,” the man answered as he ran, “and now I’m going to Constantinople to look for some work.” I hung the weights at my feet so as not to run too fast, because I had nowhere to rush. 
Don't be afraid, they won't catch up with us! - he said with a laugh, ran to the stern and, pointing one nostril against the Turkish fleet and the other against our sails, raised such a terrible wind that the entire Turkish fleet flew away from us back into the harbor in one minute. 
But I need to tell you that on this very day the British celebrated my victory over the Spanish army and fired all their cannons in joy.
The gunner approached the cannon in which I was sleeping and fired. 
What was I supposed to do? Another minute - and I will be torn to pieces by ferocious predators. And suddenly a brilliant thought struck me. I grabbed a knife, ran up to the dead bear, tore off its skin and put it on myself. 
For lunar inhabitants, the stomach serves as a suitcase. They can close and open it whenever they want...
They can take their eyes out and put them back in... If an eye gets damaged or lost, they go to the market and buy a new one. That's why there are a lot of people on the Moon who sell their eyes. Every now and then you read on the signs: “Eyes are sold cheap. Large selection orange, red, purple and blue." 
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Karl Friedrich Munchausen (German: Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, May 11, 1720, Bodenwerder - February 22, 1797, ibid.) - German baron, descendant of the ancient Lower Saxon family of Munchausens, captain of the Russian service, historical figure and literary character. The name Munchausen has become a household name as a designation for a person who tells incredible stories.
Hieronymus Karl Friedrich was the fifth of eight children in the family of Colonel Otto von Munchausen. His father died when the boy was 4 years old, and he was raised by his mother. In 1735, 15-year-old Munchausen entered the service of the sovereign Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel Ferdinand Albrecht II as a page.
Munchausen's house in Bodenwerder.
In 1737, as a page, he went to Russia to visit the young Duke Anton Ulrich, the groom and then the husband of Princess Anna Leopoldovna. In 1738 he participated with the Duke in the Turkish campaign. In 1739 he entered the Brunswick Cuirassier Regiment with the rank of cornet, whose chief was the Duke. At the beginning of 1741, immediately after the overthrow of Biron and the appointment of Anna Leopoldovna as ruler and Duke Anton Ulrich as generalissimo, he received the rank of lieutenant and command of the life campaign (the first, elite company of the regiment).
The Elizabethan coup that took place in the same year, which overthrew the Brunswick family, interrupted what had promised to be brilliant career: despite the reputation of an exemplary officer, Munchausen received the next rank (captain) only in 1750, after numerous petitions. In 1744, he commanded the guard of honor that greeted the Tsarevich's bride, Princess Sophia-Friederike of Anhalt-Zerbst (the future Empress Catherine II), in Riga. In the same year he married the Riga noblewoman Jacobina von Dunten.
Having received the rank of captain, Munchausen takes a year’s leave “to correct extreme and necessary needs” (specifically, to divide the family estates with his brothers) and leaves for Bodenwerder, which he received during the division (1752). He extended his leave twice and finally submitted his resignation to the Military Collegium, with the assignment of the rank of lieutenant colonel for blameless service; received an answer that the petition should be submitted on the spot, but he never went to Russia, as a result of which in 1754 he was expelled as having left the service without permission, but until the end of his life he signed as a captain in the Russian service.
Turkish dagger that belonged to Hieronymus von Munchausen. Museum exposition in Bodenwerder.
From 1752 until his death, Munchausen lived in Bodenwerder, communicating mainly with his neighbors, to whom he told amazing stories about his hunting adventures and adventures in Russia. Such stories usually took place in a hunting pavilion built by Munchausen and hung with the heads of wild animals and known as the “pavilion of lies”; Another favorite place for Munchausen's stories was the inn of the King of Prussia Hotel in nearby Göttingen.
Bodenwerder.
One of Munchausen’s listeners described his stories this way:
“He usually began to talk after dinner, lighting his huge meerschaum pipe with a short mouthpiece and placing a steaming glass of punch in front of him... He gesticulated more and more expressively, twisted his little smart wig on his head, his face became more and more animated and red, and he, usually very a truthful man, at these moments he wonderfully acted out his fantasies.”
Fountain. The horse cannot get drunk, since during the assault on Ochakov its hind half was lost.
The baron's stories (such subjects that undoubtedly belonged to him as the entry into St. Petersburg on a wolf harnessed to a sleigh, a horse cut in half in Ochakovo, a horse in a bell tower, fur coats gone wild, or a cherry tree growing on a deer's head) spread widely throughout the surrounding area and even penetrated in print, but maintaining decent anonymity.
Museum exposition in Bodenwerder.
For the first time, three Munchausen plots appear in the book “Der Sonderling” by Count Rox Friedrich Lienar (1761). In 1781, a collection of such stories was published in the Berlin almanac “Guide for Merry People”, indicating that they belong to Mr. M-z-n, famous for his wit, living in G-re (Hanover); in 1783, two more stories of this kind were published in the same almanac.
But the saddest thing was ahead: at the beginning of 1786, the historian Erich Raspe, convicted of stealing a numismatic collection, fled to England and there, in order to get some money, wrote on English the book that forever introduced the baron into the history of literature, “Stories of Baron Munchausen about his wonderful travels and campaigns in Russia.” Over the course of a year, “Stories” went through 4 reprints, and Raspe included the first illustrations in the third edition.
The Baron considered his name dishonored and was going to sue Burger (according to other sources, he filed, but was refused on the grounds that the book was a translation of an English anonymous publication). In addition, Raspe-Bürger’s work immediately gained such popularity that onlookers began to flock to Bodenwerder to look at the “liar baron,” and Munchausen had to station servants around the house to drive away the curious.
Munchausen's last years were overshadowed by family troubles. In 1790, his wife Jacobina died. 4 years later, Munchausen married 17-year-old Bernardine von Brun, who led an extremely wasteful and frivolous lifestyle and soon gave birth to a daughter, whom 75-year-old Munchausen did not recognize, considering the father of the clerk Huden. Munchausen started a scandalous and expensive divorce case, as a result of which he went bankrupt and his wife fled abroad.
Now the city administration is located in the Munchausen house.
The burgomaster's office is located in the bedroom of the previous owner.
Before his death, he made his last characteristic joke: when asked by the only maid caring for him how he lost two toes (frostbitten in Russia), Munchausen replied: “They were bitten off while hunting.” polar bear" Hieronymus Munchausen died on February 22, 1797, in poverty from an apoplexy, alone and abandoned by everyone. But he remained in literature and in our minds as a never despondent, cheerful person.
The first translation (more precisely, a free retelling) of the book about Munchausen into Russian belongs to the pen of N.P. Osipov and was published in 1791 under the title: “If you don’t like it, don’t listen, but don’t interfere with lying.” The literary Baron Munchausen became a well-known character in Russia thanks to K.I. Chukovsky, who adapted the book by E. Raspe for children. K. Chukovsky translated the Baron's surname from English “Munchausen” into Russian as “Munchausen”. On German it is written “Munchhausen” and is translated into Russian as “Munchhausen”.
The image of Baron Munchausen received the most significant development in Russian - Soviet cinema, in the film “That Same Munchausen”, where the scriptwriter G. Gorin gave the baron bright romantic character traits, while distorting some facts of the personal life of Hieronymus von Munchausen.
In the cartoon "The Adventures of Munchausen" the Baron is endowed with classic features, bright and magnificent.
In 2005, Nagovo-Munchausen V.’s book “The Adventures of the Childhood and Youth of Baron Munchausen” (“Munchhausens Jugend-und Kindheitsabenteuer”) was published in Russia. The book became the first book in world literature about the childhood and youthful adventures of Baron Munchausen, from the birth of the baron to his departure to Russia.
The only portrait of Munchausen by G. Bruckner (1752), depicting him in the uniform of a cuirassier, was destroyed during the Second World War. The photographs of this portrait and the description give an idea of Munchausen as a man of a strong and proportionate physique, with a round the right face. The mother of Catherine II especially notes in her diary the “beauty” of the commander of the honor guard.
The visual image of Munchausen as a literary hero represents a dry old man with a dashingly curled mustache and a goatee. This image was created by the illustrations of Gustave Doré (1862). It is curious that, by giving his hero a beard, Doré (generally very accurate in historical details) allowed an obvious anachronism, since in the 18th century they did not wear beards.
However, it was during Doré's time that goatees were reintroduced into fashion by Napoleon III. This gives rise to the assumption that the famous “bust” of Munchausen, with the motto “Mendace veritas” (Latin: “Truth in lies”) and the image of three ducks on the “coat of arms” (cf. three bees on the Bonaparte coat of arms), had a political meaning that was understandable to contemporaries subtext of the caricature of the emperor (see portrait of Napoleon III).
And we have such a monument to Munchausen in Sochi near the Seaport.
