The unusual image of Kol, distant in time from other characters of Rolland's novels, carries the features inherent in his distant great-grandchildren. Rolland brings Cole closer to Sylvia in Enchanted Soul, calling her "Col Brunion's grand-niece", and even to Jean-Christophe ("Cola Brunion is Jean-Christophe in Gallic and folk spirit"). He says that Cola Brunion, like his other heroes - Jean-Christophe, Clerambo, Annette, Marc - live and die for the happiness of all people. Comparing Kol with characters of another era, people with a rich spiritual world, acting in dramatic situations of the new time, it is necessary to Rolland in order to emphasize the seriousness of the design of the work, written in a cheerful Gallic manner. When creating the image of Col. Brunion Rolland took advantage of the information about the life and character of his paternal great-grandfather - Bonyar "Like our friend Cola, he was born in Brevek and Cola, he hosts Diary. Bonyar, according to Rolland, embodied the Gallic spirit, vitality, curiosity, folk wisdom - features that are endowed with Cola Brunion .. Translated from French by Mikhail Lozinsky, illustrated by Evgeny Kibrik05. 09. 2015. — The text has been brought into line with the 1986 edition . dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the translator Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinsky (1886-1955), - with illustrations by Eugene Kibrik, with a special preface by Romain Rolland (1936), dedicated to these very illustrations, as well as with article B. Short about translating Romain Rolland's book into Russian. A number of minor shortcomings in the text. have also been corrected. (asd66)