Andrei Gennadiev (born 1947, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian painter and graphic artist. He graduated from the Leningrad Art and Graphic Pedagogical College.
After finishing his studies, he twice attempted to enter the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg), but was not accepted due to his distinctive artistic manner, which did not conform to the formal academic requirements of that time.
Gennadiev’s solo exhibitions have been held in Russia, Finland, Germany, the United States, and other countries. Since the 1990s, he has mainly lived and worked in Finland. His work spans painting, graphics, and book illustration. Among his notable illustrated books are Vladimir Nabokov’s Anya in Wonderland (Nabokov’s 1923 Russian adaptation of Alice in Wonderland) and Alexander Pushkin’s The Tale of Tsar Saltan.
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In Nabokov’s free translation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the familiar story turns into something sharper and more enigmatic. Gennadiev’s illustrations follow this shift completely. His Wonderland is not whimsical but introspective — a place where dreams blur into unease. The figures seem caught between childlike play and adult disquiet. […]
