he worked throughout his entire life. He illustrated many works of classical Russian literature, including Nikolai Gogol 's Dead Souls, The Carriage, and The Overcoat; Mikhail Lermontov 's The Lay of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, His Young Oprichnik and the Stouthearted Merchant Kalashnikov; and Leo Tolstoy 's How the Devil Stole the Peasants