I. Vyshinskiy and B. Karadzhev's comic book «Peter the Great»: typical and individual

The article analyses the specificity of I.Vyshinskiy and B. Karadzhev's comic book «Peter the Great», published in the result of collaboration of Moscow and Perm publishing houses. Artistic individuality of the book is determined by its complex relations with the historic epoch and pictorial traditions of the past. Though retaining structural elements of a typical contemporary comic book, «Peter the Great» inherits some of the characteristics of engraving of Peter the Great's epoch and painting and graphic art of the «World of Art» group, as well as provides the reader/viewer with plenty of exquisite visual features of its own.