Yelena Safonova

30 August, 2025 No Comments

Elena Vasilievna Safonova (1902-1980) – Russian artist, book illustrator. Graduated from the painting department of VKhUTEIN, where she studied in the studio of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. From 1923, she illustrated books, mainly literature for children and adolescents. In total, she illustrated about 25 books. In 1928-1935, she collaborated with the magazines […]

Books, Silent books, Vintage collection

River

19 August, 2025 No Comments

Original title: Река Elena Safonova presents the river as a symbol of human progress in her 1930 picture book. Its course carries the reader from villages and wooden bridges to steamships, railways, power stations, and apartment blocks, and finally flows into the open sea. Here, the river becomes a force […]