Russians still attract children folk tales . Who in childhood was not told about the adventures of Kolobok or the stubborn turnip! And then they started fairy tales. And if there were illustrations for them, then the book was reread and considered many times. The artist colorfully designed folk tales Ivan Bilibin, which placed story drawing in a beautiful, ornamented frame.

Inimitable paintings Viktor Vasnetsov Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf, Alyonushka, inspired by the Russian folk tale Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Kashchei the Immortal.

Among the artists who illustrated the plots of Russian folk tales, three artists can be especially highlighted:

• Victor Vasnetsov and his illustrations for the fairy tales Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf Little Humpbacked Horse, Three Heroes.

• Ivan Bilibin, who illustrated a lot of folk tales

  We also need to remember the artists Boris Zvorykin and Evgeny Rachev.

The literary life of any child begins with fairy tales. And first of all, what the baby looks at is the illustrations for fairy tales. The child does not know how to read letters, but he reads a fairy tale from pictures. Therefore, it is very important which artist illustrates the fairy tale.

Well-known domestic children's illustrators are: Ivan Bilibin (for example, he illustrated the fairy tale The Frog Princess), Viktor Vasnetsov (drew for such wonderful fairy tales as the Little Humpbacked Horse and the Firebird), Yuri Vasnetsov (Teremok).

First of all, I want to remind you of such a person as Ivan Bilibin - he did great amount illustrations for both folk tales and Pushkin's fairy tales.

Boris Zvorykin was also involved in creating illustrations specifically for fairy tales.

Evgeny Rachv is also an illustrator of fairy tales.

A very famous artist Ivan Bilibin, his illustrations adorned collections of Russian folk tales. The illustrations were drawn for children, half text and half pictures. This made it clearer for the little ones.

And this is one of the illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

Artists who painted various fairy tale characters in their paintings. Ivan Bilibin, for example, painted beautiful pictures. Viktor Vasnetsov also drew fairy tale characters, for example from the fairy tale The Little Humpbacked Horse.

Folk tales are one of my favorite genres folklore. They reflect the life of the people, their traditions and rituals, and usually have an instructive and educational meaning.

Children love folk tales very much. After all, this type of creativity is very easy and accessible for them to understand.

Illustrators made a huge contribution to conveying the plot of the tale to the reader. We imagine many fairy tale heroes exactly as they were seen in the pictures.

Among the famous illustrators should be named

Ivan Bilibina (The Tale of the Golden Cockerel, The Frog Princess, Vasilisa the Beautiful),

Viktor Vasnetsova (Humpbacked Horse, Firebird, Ivan Tsarevich on a gray wolf)

Yuri Vasnetsov (Three Bears, Little Humpbacked Horse).

Evgenia Rachva (created many illustrations for Russian folk tales).

A distinction should be made between artists who painted fairy-tale scenes and artists who painted illustrations for printed editions of Russian fairy tales. Among the first, one should name, first of all, Viktor Vasnetsov, who in his work turned specifically to fairy tales- this is Ivan Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf and the Bogatyrs. Vasnetsov also worked on illustrations of books, for example, The Little Humpbacked Horse by Ershov, but this is not exactly a folk tale.

Of the fairy tale illustrators, of course, we should remember Ivan Bilibin, who made the most famous illustrations of Pushkin’s fairy tales and many folk tales:

And of course, we cannot forget the genius of fairy-tale illustration, my favorite artist of this genre, Evgeny Rachev, who illustrated a great sea of ​​folk tales:

Since childhood, I have kept wonderful books of Russian folk tales, the illustrations of which are probably more interesting than the fairy tales themselves. First of all, the luxurious paintings of the Vasnetsov brothers come to mind. I remember reproductions of paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov, Ivan the Tsarevich and the Gray Wolf, which hung on the wall of my great-grandmother’s house and Knights at the Crossroads, known as the Three Heroes

I still love looking at illustrations for Ivan Bilibin’s fairy tales, and I’m very proud that I have a rare edition of Bilibin’s drawings at home - a large colorful album with sketches and finished illustrations.

Among the works of female artists, I really like the illustrations for fairy tales by Elena Almazova and Inna Anfilofyeva and the magical, precise micro-details in the drawings of Elena Polenova (who, by the way, is the sister of the famous artist Vasily Polenov).

And the drawings for Boris Zvorykin’s fairy tales are reminiscent of illustrations for real historical events: the details of costumes and household items are very accurately conveyed...

There are many illustrators of fairy tales and epics. I only remembered my loved ones.

The book The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights of Pushkin with illustrations by Boris Zvorykin immediately appeared in my mind’s eye - such a bright ornamental decorativeness, a sensitive Russian harmonious tradition. Few people know that Boris Zvorykin except book illustration He also did icon painting and was a translator. He was born in Moscow, in the Russian Empire in 1897, and died in 1942 in Paris, where he emigrated in 1921.

His illustrations cannot be confused with others

Sister also belongs to the same Russian tradition famous painter Vasily Polenova Elena Polenova is a watercolor artist, she was born on November 27, 1850, in St. Petersburg, then women were not allowed to study at universities, but she studied with the best Russian artists: P.P. Chistyakov, I.N. Kramskoy and in Paris with Ch. Chaplin, her illustrations are less decorative, softer

Have you ever been in a hut on chicken legs? Among the many Russian painters who sought inspiration in folk history, culture and poetry, V. Vasnetsov occupies a special place. The artist admitted: “I have always been convinced that ... in a fairy tale, in a song, in an epic, the entire image of a people, internal and external, with the past and present, and maybe the future is reflected ...” (8, p. 476). In his painting “The Guslars” are singer-storytellers. In their epic songs, the images of their favorite heroes come to life, becoming a kind of chronicle of folk history.

The name of Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov is one of the most famous and beloved among Russian names artists of the 19th century century (37). His creative heritage is interesting and multifaceted. He was called “the true hero of Russian painting.” He was the first among painters to turn to epic fairy-tale subjects. “I only lived in Russia” - these words of the artist characterize the meaning and significance of his work. Paintings of everyday life and poetic paintings based on Russian folk tales, legends, and epics; illustrations for the works of Russian writers and sketches of theatrical scenery; portrait painting and ornamental art; paintings on historical subjects and architectural projects - such is the creative range of the artist.

But the main thing that the artist enriched Russian art with is works written on the basis of folk art. What paintings by Viktor Vasnetsov can be considered the most famous? Anyone will answer that these are the famous fairy-tale works of the master: “Bogatyrs”, which some will call “Three Heroes”, the gentle, thoughtful “Alyonushka” and, perhaps, an equally famous creation - “Ivan the Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf”. Why are these particular works so clearly imprinted in the memory of most people? Perhaps this is due to primordially Russian images or soulful fairy-tale motifs that are passed on to new generations, already at the level people's memory and in some ways even became a reflection of the history of Ancient Rus'.

"Bogatyrs"(1881-98), which we admire, took about thirty years of the master’s life. That’s how long he was looking for that single idea of ​​three images personifying the soul of the Russian people. Ilya Muromets is the people's strength, Dobrynya Nikitich is his wisdom, Alyosha Popovich is the connection between the present and the past with the spiritual aspirations of the people.

Viktor Vasnetsov himself admitted that the fairytale “Alyonushka” (1881) was his favorite piece, for the creation of which he traveled from Moscow to his native place. And to convey greater insight to the image, I attended many concerts classical music. Every twig, flower and blade of grass sings a song of praise to Russian nature, glorifying the beauty, freshness and at the same time sad thoughtfulness of the main character.

No less famous work- “Ivan Tsarevich on the Gray Wolf” (1889) reveals to us the author as a deep connoisseur of everything that is called “the soul of the Russian people.” The fairy-tale characters of the beauty and the prince talk about the time when people knew how to listen and hear nature.

The works of the great master of Russian painting became the world image of everything Russian and folk in painting of the late 19th century.

Another wonderful illustrator - Bilibin Ivan Yakovlevich(1876-1942). He expressed his impressions not only in images, but also in a number of articles (4, 5). Since 1899, creating design cycles for editions of fairy tales (Vasilisa the Beautiful, Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka, Finist the Clear Falcon, the Frog Princess, etc., including Pushkin’s tales about Tsar Saltan and the Golden Cockerel), he developed - using the technique of ink drawing, highlighted watercolor, - special " Bilibinsky style» book design, continuing the traditions of ancient Russian ornament (4).

In the summer of 1899, Bilibin went to the village of Yegny, Tver province, to see for himself the dense forests, clear rivers, wooden huts, hear fairy tales and songs, and began to illustrate Russian folk tales from Afanasyev’s collection. Over the course of 4 years, Bilibin illustrated seven fairy tales: “Sister Alyonushka and Brother Ivanushka”, “White Duck”, “The Frog Princess”, “Marya Morevna”, “The Tale of Ivan Tsarevich, the Firebird and the Gray wolf”, “Feather of Finist Yasna-Falcon”, “Vasilisa the Beautiful”. Bilibin did not create individual illustrations, he strove for an ensemble: he drew the cover, illustrations, ornamental decorations, font - he stylized everything to resemble an old manuscript.

For all seven books, Bilibin draws the same cover, on which there are Russian fairy-tale characters: three heroes, the bird Sirin, the Serpent-Gorynych, the hut of Baba Yaga. All page illustrations are surrounded by ornamental frames, like rustic ones

Bilibin. Red horseman window with carved platbands. They are not only decorative, but also have content that continues the main illustration. In the fairy tale “Vasilisa the Beautiful,” the illustration with the Red Horseman (sun) is surrounded by flowers, and the Black Horseman (night) is surrounded by mythical birds with human heads. The illustration with Baba Yaga's hut is surrounded by a frame with toadstools (what else could be next to Baba Yaga?). But the most important thing for Bilibin was the atmosphere of Russian antiquity, epic, fairy tale. From authentic ornaments and details, he created a half-real, half-fantastic world.

The horse was necessary for the peasant to grow bread, just like the sun itself. Images of the sun and horse in folk art merge into one. In the poetic ideas of the people, a rider on a horse freed spring from winter captivity, unlocked the sun, opened the way for spring waters, after which spring came into its own. This motif in folklore is embodied in the image of Yegor the Brave.

Baba Yaga - fairy tale character living in a dense forest. “On the stove, on the ninth brick, lies Baba Yaga, a bone leg, her nose has grown into the ceiling, snot is hanging over the threshold, her tits are wrapped on a hook, she is sharpening her teeth” (2); “Baba Yaga gave them something to drink, fed, took them to the bathhouse,” “Baba Yaga, a bone leg, rides in a mortar, rests with a pestle, covers up the trail with a broom.” V. Dahl writes that Yaga is “a kind of witch or an evil spirit under the guise of V. Bilibin Baba Yaga.

Ornamental lines clearly limit the colors, set volume and perspective in the plane of the sheet. Filling a black and white graphic design with watercolors only emphasizes the given lines. For framing the drawings of I.Ya. Bilibin generously uses ornamentation (33).

In our 21st century, the century of narrow specialization, the figure Nicholas Konstantinovich Roerich is a unique phenomenon. great artist, archaeologist and researcher, Nicholas Roerich has a worldwide reputation as a painter and scientist. We are less familiar with his literary heritage. For example, few people know that Nikolai Konstantinovich also wrote... fairy tales. With beautiful allegorical images, with the alluring beauty of mysterious worlds. The heroes of his fairy tales are carriers sublime feelings and thoughts that have eternal universal value (39). They encourage deep thought, incite high feelings, and direct one toward spiritual improvement.

S.K. Makovsky about N.K. Roerich: “... There are artists who recognize in man the secret of lonely spirituality. They look intently into people's faces, and each human face is a world separate from the world of everyone. And there are others: they are attracted by the mystery of the soul, blind, close, common to entire eras and Nicholas Roerich. Gallery of paintings by the artist - Zmievna, 1906 peoples, penetrating the entire element of life , in which an individual drowns, like a weak stream in the dark depths of an underground lake” (30, pp. 33-35).

The faces of the people on Roerich’s canvases are almost invisible. They are faceless ghosts of centuries. Like trees and animals, like quiet stones of dead villages, like monsters of folk antiquity, they are fused with the elements of life in the mists of the past. They are without a name. And they don’t think, they don’t feel lonely. They do not exist separately and as if they never existed: as if before, long ago, in obvious life, they lived with a common thought and a common feeling, together with the trees and stones and monsters of antiquity.

An artist whom one involuntarily wants to compare with Roerich is M.A. Vrubel. I'm not talking about similarities. Roerich does not resemble Vrubel either in the nature of his painting or in the suggestions of his plans. And yet, at a certain depth of mystical comprehension, they are brothers. Temperaments are different, forms and themes of creativity are different; the spirit of incarnations is one. Vrubel's demons and Roerich's angels were born in the same moral depths. From the same darkness of unconsciousness arose their beauty. But Vrubel’s demonism is active. It is more frank, brighter, more magical. More proud.

“In the painting “Pan,” the Greek god turns into a Russian goblin. Old, wrinkled, with bottomless blue eyes, knobby fingers like twigs, he seems to emerge from a mossy stump.

The characteristic Russian landscape takes on a fantastic, magical coloring - vast wet meadows, a winding river, thin birch trees frozen in the silence of the falling twilight, illuminated by the crimson of the horned moon (64).

The Swan Princess is a character in Russian folk tales. In one of them, retold by A.N. Afanasyev tells about the transformation of twelve birds - swans into beautiful girls, in another - about the appearance of the wonderful Swan bird on the shore of the blue sea (2).

Sadko (Rich Guest) is the hero of epics Novgorod cycle. Sadko was at first a poor psaltery player who amused Novgorod merchants and boyars by playing the gusli on the shore of Lake Ilmen. With his play he gained the favor of Tsar Vodyany. The king demanded that the hero marry his daughter, who had to be chosen. In gratitude for the rescue, Sadko built churches in Novgorod in honor of Holy Mother of God and Nikola Mozhaisky.

Many illustrated fairy tales wonderful artists: Tatyana Alekseevna Mavrina, Elena Dmitrievna Polenova, Gleb Georgievich Bedarev, each of their works is an amazing image that immerses us in a mysterious magical world.

Illustrators

Children's book illustrators. Who are the authors of the most favorite pictures?

What's the use of a book, thought Alice.
– if there are no pictures or conversations in it?
"Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

Surprisingly, children's illustrations in Russia (USSR)
There is exact year birth - 1925. This year
a children's literature department was created in Leningradsky
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations were not published specifically for children.

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have remained in our memory since childhood and are liked by our children?
Find out, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using stories from parents of current children and reviews of books on online bookstore websites.

Vladimir Grigorievich Suteev(1903-1993, Moscow) - children's writer, illustrator and animator. His kind funny pictures look like scenes from a cartoon. Suteev’s drawings turned many fairy tales into masterpieces.
For example, not all parents consider the works of Korney Chukovsky to be necessary classics, and most of them do not consider his works talented. But I want to hold Chukovsky’s fairy tales, illustrated by Vladimir Suteev, in my hands and read them to children.

Boris Aleksandrovich Dekhterev (1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) – folk artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the “Dekhterev School” determined the development of book graphics in the country), illustrator. He worked primarily in pencil drawing and watercolor techniques. Dekhterev’s good old illustrations are a whole era in the history of children’s illustration; many illustrators call Boris Alexandrovich their teacher.

Dekhterev illustrated children's fairy tales by Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen. As well as works of other Russian writers and world classics, for example, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, William Shakespeare.

Nikolai Alexandrovich Ustinov(b. 1937, Moscow), his teacher was Dekhterev, and many modern illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolay Ustinov is a national artist and illustrator. Fairy tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Illustrated almost three hundred works famous artist for publishing houses: “Children’s Literature”, “Malysh”, “Artist of the RSFSR”, publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. Worked in the magazine Murzilka.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most beloved for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Little Fox Sister, The Frog Princess, Geese and Swans and many others.

Yuri Alekseevich Vasnetsov(1900-1973, Vyatka, Leningrad) - people's artist and illustrator. All kids like his pictures for folk songs, nursery rhymes and jokes (Ladushki, Rainbow-arc). He illustrated folk tales, tales of Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianki and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the pictures are clear and moderately bright. Using the name of a famous artist, books have recently often been published with unclear scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.

Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(b. 1920, Moscow) - Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino by A. N. Tolstoy and about the Emerald City by A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and other countries former USSR. Painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky’s illustrations that many recognize as classic among Volkov’s works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which several generations of children have known and loved him is undoubtedly his merit.

Victor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(b. 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the summer mascot Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow. Illustrator for the magazines “Crocodile”, “Funny Pictures”, “Murzilka”, drew for many years for the magazine “Around the World”.
Chizhikov illustrated the works of Sergei Mikhalkov, Nikolai Nosov (Vitya Maleev at school and at home), Irina Tokmakova (Alya, Klyaksich and the letter “A”), Alexander Volkov (The Wizard of the Emerald City), poems by Andrei Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

To be fair, it is worth noting that Chizhikov’s illustrations are quite specific and cartoonish. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations if there is an alternative. For example, many people prefer the books “The Wizard of the Emerald City” with illustrations by Leonid Vladimirsky.

Nikolai Ernestovich Radlov(1889-1942, St. Petersburg) - Russian artist, art critic, teacher. Illustrator of children's books: Agnia Barto, Samuil Marshak, Sergei Mikhalkov, Alexander Volkov. Radlov drew with great pleasure for children. His most famous book is comics for kids “Stories in Pictures”. This is a book-album with funny stories about animals and birds. Years have passed, but the collection is still very popular. The stories in pictures were repeatedly republished not only in Russia, but also in other countries. On international competition children's book in America in 1938, the book received second prize.

Alexey Mikhailovich Laptev (1905-1965, Moscow) - graphic artist, book illustrator, poet. The artist’s works are in many regional museums, as well as in private collections in Russia and abroad. Illustrated “The Adventures of Dunno and His Friends” by Nikolai Nosov, “Fables” by Ivan Krylov, and the magazine “Funny Pictures”. The book with his poems and pictures “Peak, pak, pok” is very loved by more than one generation of children and parents (Briff, the greedy bear, foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty bunnies and others)

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (1876-1942, Leningrad) - Russian artist, book illustrator and theater designer. Bilibin illustrated a large number of fairy tales, including those of Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin. He developed his own style - “Bilibinsky” - a graphic representation taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

Fairy tales, epics, images ancient Rus' For many, they have long been inextricably linked with Bilibin’s illustrations.

Vladimir Mikhailovich Konashevich(1888-1963, Novocherkassk, Leningrad) - Russian artist, graphic artist, illustrator. I started illustrating children's books by accident. In 1918, his daughter was three years old. Konashevich drew pictures for her for each letter of the alphabet. One of my friends saw these drawings and liked them. This is how “The ABC in Pictures” was published - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
Since the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main work of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, and drew pictures in his favorite specific technique - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

The main works of Vladimir Konashevich:
- illustration of fairy tales and songs of different peoples, some of which were illustrated several times;
- fairy tales by G.Kh. Andersen, Brothers Grimm and Charles Perrault;
- “The Old Man of the Year” by V. I. Dahl;
- works by Korney Chukovsky and Samuil Marshak.
The artist’s last work was illustrating all the fairy tales of A. S. Pushkin.

Anatoly Mikhailovich Savchenko (1924-2011, Novocherkassk, Moscow) - animator and illustrator of children's books. Anatoly Savchenko was the production designer for the cartoons “Kid and Carlson” and “Carlson is Back” and the author of illustrations for Astrid Lindgren’s books. The most famous cartoon works with his direct participation: Moidodyr, the adventures of Murzilka, Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, Vovka in the Far Far Away Kingdom, The Nutcracker, Tsokotukha the Fly, Kesha the Parrot and others.
Children are familiar with Savchenko’s illustrations from the books: “Piggy Gets Offended” by Vladimir Orlov, “Little Brownie Kuzya” by Tatyana Alexandrova, “Fairy Tales for the Little Ones” by Gennady Tsyferov, “Little Baba Yaga” Proysler Otfried, as well as books with works similar to cartoons.

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev (b. 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 60s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Eric Vladimirovich Bulatov(born 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for the fairy tales of Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, the poems of Valentin Berestov and the fairy tales of Gennady Tsyferov.

Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov(born 1934, Moscow) - People's Artist. Favorite technique is color etching. Author of illustrations for many works of Russian and foreign classics. His illustrations for fairy tales are most famous:

Jan Ekholm “Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and Others”;
- Selma Lagerlöf " Amazing trip Nils with wild geese";
- Sergey Aksakov “The Scarlet Flower”;
- works of Hans Christian Andersen.

Diodorov illustrated more than 300 books. His works were published in the USA, France, Spain, Finland, Japan, South Korea and other countries. He worked as the chief artist of the publishing house "Children's Literature".

Evgeniy Ivanovich Charushin (1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Most of the illustrations are done in the style of free watercolor drawings, with a little humor. Children like it, even toddlers. He is known for the illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: “About Tomka”, “Wolf and Others”, “Nikitka and His Friends” and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianchi. The most famous book with his illustrations is “Children in a Cage” by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

Evgeniy Mikhailovich Rachev(1906-1997, Tomsk) – animal artist, graphic artist, illustrator. He illustrated mainly Russian folk tales, fables and tales of classics of Russian literature. He mainly illustrated works in which the main characters are animals: Russian fairy tales about animals, fables.

Ivan Maksimovich Semenov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - people's artist, graphic artist, caricaturist. Semyonov worked in newspapers " TVNZ», « Pioneer truth", magazines "Smena", "Crocodile" and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first in the USSR was created humor magazine for small children - “Funny Pictures”.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov’s stories about Kolya and Mishka (Fantasers, Living Hat and others) and drawings “Bobik visiting Barbos.”

The names of some other famous contemporary Russian illustrators of children's books:

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(b. 1941, Moscow) – production designer for dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mother for a Baby Mammoth, Bazhov's tales and the illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of kind, beautiful illustrations for many children's books: Poems and songs of Mother Goose, poems by Boris Zakhoder, works by Sergei Mikhalkov, works by Daniil Kharms, stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, “Pippi Longstocking” by Astrid Lindgren and others.

- Igor Egunov(the author of the article did not find biographical information) – contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for the books: “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Rudolf Raspe, “The Little Humpbacked Horse” by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, tales of Russian heroes.

- Evgeniy Antonenkov(born 1956, Moscow) - illustrator, favorite technique is watercolor, pen and paper, mixed media. The illustrations are modern, unusual, and stand out among others. Some look at them with indifference, others fall in love with the funny pictures at first sight.
The most famous illustrations: for the tales of Winnie the Pooh (Alan Alexander Milne), “Russian children's fairy tales”, poems and fairy tales by Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Gianni Rodari, Yunna Moritz. “The Stupid Horse” by Vladimir Levin (English ancient folk ballads), illustrated by Antonenkov, is one of the most popular books of 2011.
Evgeniy Antonenkov collaborates with publishing houses in Germany, France, Belgium, the USA, Korea, Japan, is a regular participant in prestigious international exhibitions, laureate of the White Crow competition (Bologna, 2004), winner of the Book of the Year diploma (2008).

- Igor Yulievich Oleynikov(b. 1953, Moscow) – artist-animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist has no special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for the films: “The Secret of the Third Planet”, “The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “Sherlock Holmes and I” and others. Worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleynikov collaborates with publishing houses in Canada, the USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, and participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The artist’s most famous illustrations for books: “The Hobbit, or There and Back Again” by John Tolkien, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen” by Erich Raspe, “The Adventures of Despereaux the Mouse” by Kate DiCamillo, “Peter Pan” by James Barrie. Latest books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Usachev.

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Ivan Bilibin is a modernist and lover of antiquity, an advertiser and storyteller, the author of the revolutionary double-headed eagle and a patriot of his country. 7 main facts from the life of Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin

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