About the book: 2009 / This book, intended for children and adults, is about famous dogs, whose names have been preserved in history thanks to the heroic deeds they performed out of love for their owners .The republication of stories about famous dogs opens a new publishing series of the State Public Historical Library of Russia, in which books from the “Children's Collection” of the Rare Books Department of the State Historical Library of Russia will be republished. The authors of the pictures drawn and carved on wood for polytypes in the original text are the famous Russian artist I. S. Panov and the best Russian engraver M. N. Rashevsky (St. Petersburg).