Sorochinskaya yarmarka

«Kak upoitelen, kak roskoshen letniy den' v Malorossii! Izumrudy, topazy, yahonty efirnyh nasekomyh syplyutsya nad pestrymi ogorodami, osenyaemymi statnymi podsolnechnikami. Nagnuvshiesya ot tyazhesti plodov shirokie vetvi chereshen, sliv, yablon', grush; nebo, ego chistoe zerkalo — reka v zelenyh, gordo podnyatyh ramah… kak polno sladostrastiya i negi malorossiyskoe leto!» Neveroyatno yarkie i zhivye gogolevskie peyzazhi, samobytnye haraktery geroev i prazdnichnyy duh Malorossii prosto prosyatsya na kist' hudozhnika. Gennadiy Spirin uslyshal etu pros'bu i sozdal illyustracii, kotorye slovno perenosyat nas na burlyaschuyu i poyuschuyu Sorochinskuyu yarmarku.