Savva Grigoryevich Brodsky (1923–1982) was an artist, book illustrator, sculptor, and poet.
He was born in Gomel and moved with his family to Petrograd in early childhood, where he later graduated from an art school. In 1944, he enrolled at the Moscow Architectural Institute. After completing his studies, he worked at the design institute Giproteatr. From the early 1960s onward, he increasingly focused on book illustration.
Brodsky created illustrations for numerous books, including multi-volume editions of works by Alexander Grin, Theodore Dreiser, Prosper Mérimée, Guy de Maupassant, Romain Rolland, Robert Louis Stevenson, Gustave Flaubert, and Stefan Zweig. His series of illustrations for Don Quixote was awarded a gold medal at the Moscow International Book Exhibition in 1975.
