About the book: 1987 / The book is dedicated to the life and work of the remarkable Bulgarian painter of the first half of the last century, Zachary Hristov Zograf. Carefully tracing the creative path of the master, an artist of a complex and dramatic fate, the author talks about his work on monumental paintings in monasteries, about his creation of the first secular easel portraits in Bulgarian art. The bright and original figure of Zograf is recreated against the broad background of the Bulgarian Renaissance. The publication is illustrated. For a wide range of readers.