Russia

Boris Artsybashev

Boris Artsybashev

Boris Mikhailovich Artsybashev (1899–1965) was an American artist, designer, and illustrator of Russian origin. He was the son of the writer Mikhail Artsybashev. Born in Kharkiv, he emigrated to the United States during the Russian Civil War. In 1919, he began working in an engraving studio in New York, where […]

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Dmitry Trubin

Dmitry Trubin

Dmitry Alexandrovich Trubin (b. 1961) — Russian artist and illustrator. Born in Kotlas, Arkhangelsk Region, Trubin first graduated from a maritime college before completing his studies at the Art Faculty of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He has illustrated more than one hundred children’s books, including Thumbelina and The Steadfast Tin […]

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Evgeny Rachev

Evgeny Rachev

Evgeny Mikhailovich Rachev (1906–1997) was an artist and book illustrator. He was born in Tomsk and spent his childhood in a village with his grandmother. In 1920, he traveled on his own to Novorossiysk to join his mother, worked in the port, studied at a maritime vocational school, and later […]

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Svetozar Ostrov

Svetozar Ostrov

Svetozar Aleksandrovich Ostrov (1941–2024) was an artist, graphic designer, and illustrator. He was born in Leningrad into a family of artists. He began drawing at the age of five. He studied at the Leningrad Secondary Art School and later graduated from the Faculty of Graphics of the I. E. Repin […]

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