Victor Chizhikov

3 September, 2025 No Comments

Viktor Aleksandrovich Chizhikov (1935-2020) was a Soviet artist and illustrator. He graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1958. He worked in the children’s magazines Murzilka, Vesyolye Kartinki, the humorous publication Krokodil and other periodicals. For many years he worked as an illustrator in the popular magazine Vokrug Sveta. Since […]

Books, Vintage collection

The Wizard of the Emerald City

15 August, 2025 No Comments

Original title: Volshebnik Izumrudnogo goroda “The Wizard of the Emerald City” is a fairy tale story by Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, written in 1939 based on the fairy tale by the American writer Lyman Frank Baum “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” with some changes. The illustrator of the original edition of […]