Thanks to the work of talented translators, Alice's adventures in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass have long become classics of literature for Russian readers. In England, the first of these two books, written by mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is now better known by his literary pseudonym as Lewis Carroll, was published in 1865. Readers were attracted not only by the amazing adventures of the main character, but also by the magnificent illustrations made by the English artist John Tenniel.