Чудеса в Гусляре (с иллюстрациями)

Kir Bulychev - vtorai͡a velichina v otechestvennoĭ fantastike XX veka posle bratʹev Strugat͡skikh. Neskolʹko pokoleniĭ chitateleĭ vyroslo na ego knigakh, a pervai͡a chitatelʹskai͡a li͡ubovʹ dolgovechna i ne prokhodit s godami. Osnovatelʹ Velikogo Gusli͡ara, krestnyĭ papa Alisy Seleznevoĭ, devochki iz budushchego Zemli, letopiset͡s trudov i dneĭ doktora Pavlysha i ego druzeĭ iz ėkipazha mezhplanetnogo zvezdoleta "Segezha", lot͡sman na reke Khronos, soedini͡ai͡ushcheĭ vo vremeni raznye berega Rossii, - Kir Bulychev mnogomeren, kak sama zhiznʹ, v ego literaturnoĭ vselennoĭ estʹ mesto i shutlivomu rozygryshu, i edkoĭ, besposhchadnoĭ ironii, i mudrosti uchenogo i providt͡sa. Fantasticheskie rasskazy i povesti o gorode Velikiĭ Gusli͡ar, chto stoit na reke Gusʹ v Vologodskoĭ oblasti, odna iz besspornykh udach mastera (v sbornik voshli luchshie, samye izvestnye proizvedenii͡a iz ėtogo t͡sikla). Sam gorod znamenit tem, chto nakhoditsi͡a na "zemnoĭ vypuklosti", i poėtomu viden inoplaneti͡anam iz kosmosa luchshe, chem li͡ubye drugie goroda mira. Ottogo-to oni i chastye gosti v ėtom russkom severnom gorode. Otdelʹnym predstaviteli͡am naselenii͡a Velikogo Gusli͡ara palet͡s v rot ne kladi. K takovym otnositsi͡a, naprimer, Nikolaĭ Ivanovich Lozhkin, pensioner, kotoryĭ nosit spet͡sialʹnye chasy, vyzyvai͡ushchie u okruzhai͡ushchikh rezkui͡u k nemu neprii͡aznʹ. I nekotorye drugie. No v osnovnom zdesʹ li͡udi otzyvchivye, khoroshie, khoti͡a i s kharakterom. Vot, skazhem, velikogusli͡aret͡s Korneliĭ Udalov. Chego s nim tolʹko v zhizni ne proiskhodit - to ego pokhishchai͡ut inoplaneti͡ane, to nad nim stavi͡at uchenye ocherednoĭ svoĭ bezumnyĭ ėksperiment. A emu vse nipochem. . . Imi͡a khudozhnika Evgenii͡a Migunova i͡arko prozvuchalo v seredine 1960-kh, kogda vyshla povestʹ-skazka dli͡a nauchnykh rabotnikov mladshego vozrasta "Ponedelʹnik nachinaetsi͡a v subbotu" Arkadii͡a i Borisa Strugat͡skikh. Obraz Sashi Privalova stal nastolʹko privychnym dli͡a vsekh chitateleĭ, chto drugogo Privalova my uzhe ne mozhem sebe predstavitʹ. A illi͡ustrat͡sii k t͡siklam proizvedeniĭ Kira Bulycheva o prikli͡uchenii͡akh Alisy Seleznevoĭ i Velikom Gusli͡are (poslednie predstavleny v ėtoĭ knige) - pri͡amoe ėtomu podtverzhdenie.

Kir Bulychev is the second greatest figure in Russian fiction of the 20th century after the Strugatsky brothers. Several generations of readers have grown up on his books, and the first reader's love is long-lasting and does not pass over the years. The founder of the Great Guslar, the godfather of Alice Selezneva, a girl from the future of the Earth, the chronicler of the works and days of Dr. Pavlysh and his friends from the crew of the interplanetary spaceship Segezha, the pilot on the Chronos River, connecting the different shores of Russia in time, Kir Bulychev is multidimensional, like life itself, in his literary universe there is a place for humorous a practical joke, and biting, merciless irony, and the wisdom of a scientist and a visionary. Fantastic stories and novellas about the city of Veliky Guslar, which stands on the Goose River in the Vologda region, are one of the undisputed successes of the master (the collection includes the best, most famous works from this cycle). The city itself is famous for being located on the "earth's bulge", and therefore is visible to aliens from space better than any other cities in the world. That's why they are frequent visitors to this Russian northern city. Do not put a finger in your mouth to individual representatives of the population of Veliky Guslar. These include, for example, Nikolai Ivanovich Lozhkin, a pensioner who wears special watches that cause others to sharply dislike him. And some others. But mostly the people here are sympathetic, good, albeit with character. Here, for example, is the Great Russian Cornelius Udalov. What doesn't happen to him in life is that he is abducted by aliens, then scientists put their next crazy experiment on him. But he doesn't care . . . The name of the artist Evgeny Migunov sounded vividly in the mid-1960s, when the story-tale for young scientists "Monday begins on Saturday" by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky was published. The image of Sasha Privalov has become so familiar to all readers that we can no longer imagine another Privalov. And the illustrations for the cycles of works by Kir Bulychev about the adventures of Alice Selezneva and the Great Guslyar (the latter are presented in this book) are a direct confirmation of this.