The Great Artists series consists of 100 albums of world painting. On the pages of books - biographies of artists, the main milestones of creativity, their role in world culture. Each album contains about 50 illustrations. The 11th volume of the series is dedicated to Valentin Alexandrovich Serov, one of the brightest representatives of Russian painting of the Silver Age. Serov possessed a unique talent, owned various painting techniques in combination with actually photographic vision. Only entering the art of painting, he opened a new stage - "Girl with peaches," "Girl illuminated by the sun." Serov's skill reaches its climax in the 1900s - "M.N. Ermolova," "F.I. Sharapin," "Ida Rubinstein." Apart from that, he also worked on illustrations for books about Russian history, where Peter I can be considered the main figure.