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

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

Who are they - the authors of the most beloved, beautiful illustrations that have been remembered since childhood and our children like?
Learn, remember, share your opinion.
The article was written using the stories of the parents of today's kids and book reviews on the websites of online bookstores.

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

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) - People's Artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the "School of Dekhterev" determined the development book graphics countries), illustrator. He worked mainly in the technique of pencil drawing and watercolor. old kind illustrations Dekhterev is a whole era in the history of children's illustration, many illustrators call Boris Aleksandrovich their teacher.

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

Nikolay Alexandrovich Ustinov(1937, Moscow), Dekhterev was his teacher, and many contemporary artists-illustrators already consider Ustinov their teacher.

Nikolai Ustinov - People's Artist, illustrator. Tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works illustrated famous artist for publishing houses: "Children's Literature", "Kid", "Artist of the RSFSR", publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. He worked in the Murzilka magazine.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most favorite for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Sister Chanterelle, Frog Princess, Geese 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, fairy tales by Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ershov, Samuil Marshak, Vitaly Bianchi and other classics of Russian literature.

When buying children's books with illustrations by Yuri Vasnetsov, make sure that the drawings are clear and moderately bright. Using the name famous artist, V Lately often publish books with fuzzy scans of drawings or with increased unnatural brightness and contrast, and this is not very good for children's eyes.

Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about Buratino A. N. Tolstoy and about Emerald City A. M. Volkov, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and countries former USSR. I painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky's illustrations that many recognize as classic for Volkov's works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which he has been known and loved by several generations of children is undoubtedly his merit.

Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the talisman of summer Olympic Games 1980 in Moscow. The illustrator of the magazine "Crocodile", "Funny Pictures", "Murzilka", for many years he drew 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 Oz), poems by Andrey Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

In fairness, it should be noted that Chizhikov's illustrations are rather specific and cartoony. Therefore, not all parents prefer to buy books with his illustrations, if there is an alternative. For example, the books "The Wizard of the Emerald City" are preferred by many 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 painted for kids with great pleasure. The most his famous book- 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. Stories in pictures were repeatedly reprinted not only in Russia, but also in other countries. On international competition children's book in America in 1938, the book won the 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, "Funny Pictures" magazine. The book with his poems and pictures “Pik, Pak, Pok” is already very loved by any generation of children and parents (Briff, a greedy bear, foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty hares 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. Developed his own style - "Bilibinsky" - a graphic representation, taking into account the traditions of Old Russian and folk art, carefully drawn and detailed patterned contour drawing colored with watercolor. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

Tales, epics, images ancient Rus' for many, it has 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, he liked them. So the “ABC in Pictures” was printed - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
From the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main business of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, painted pictures in a specific technique he liked - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

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

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

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(born in 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 Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov(Born in 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for fairy tales by Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, poems by Valentin Berestov and fairy tales by Gennady Tsyferov.

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

Jan Ekholm "Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and others";
- Selma Lagerlöf Amazing Journey Nils s wild geese»;
- Sergey Aksakov The Scarlet Flower»;
- Hans Christian Andersen's works.

Diodorov has illustrated more than 300 books. His works have been 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".

Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's animal writer. Basically, the illustrations are executed in the manner of a free watercolor drawing with a bit of humor. Kids love it, even toddlers. Known for illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: "About Tomka", "Volchishko and others", "Nikitka and his friends" and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianki. The most famous book with his illustrations is "Children in a Cage" by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

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

Ivan Maksimovich Semyonov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - People's Artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. Semenov worked in the newspapers " TVNZ», « Pioneer Truth”, magazines “Change”, “Crocodile” and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine for young children in the USSR, “Funny Pictures”, was created.
His most famous illustrations: to the stories of Nikolai Nosov about Kolya and Mishka (Dreamers, living hat and others) and drawings "Bobik visiting Barbos".

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

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(born in 1941, Moscow) - production designer of dozens animated films: Little Raccoon, Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mom for a mammoth, Bazhov's tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of good 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 long stocking» Astrid Lindgren and others.

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

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

- Igor Yulievich Oleinikov(born in 1953, Moscow) - animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for his 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 Oleinikov cooperates with publishing houses in Canada, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The most famous illustrations of the artist for books: "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" by John Tolkien, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Erich Raspe, "The Adventures of Despero Mouse" by Kate DiCamillo, "Peter Pan" by James Barry. Recent books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Usachev.

Anna Agrova

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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, the children's illustration of Russia (USSR)
there is an exact year of birth - 1925. This year
a department of children's literature was created in the Leningrad
State Publishing House (GIZ). Before this book
with illustrations specially for children were not published.

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

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev(1908-1993, Kaluga, Moscow) - People's Artist, Soviet graphic artist (it is believed that the Dekhterev School determined the development of the country's book graphics), illustrator. He worked mainly in the technique of pencil drawing and watercolor. The good old illustrations by Dekhterev are a whole era in the history of children's illustration, many illustrators call Boris Aleksandrovich their teacher.

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

Nikolai Ustinov - People's Artist, illustrator. Tales with his illustrations were published not only in Russia (USSR), but also in Japan, Germany, Korea and other countries. Almost three hundred works were illustrated by the famous artist for publishing houses: "Children's Literature", "Kid", "Artist of the RSFSR", publishing houses of Tula, Voronezh, St. Petersburg and others. He worked in the Murzilka magazine.
Ustinov's illustrations for Russian folk tales remain the most favorite for children: Three Bears, Masha and the Bear, Sister Chanterelle, Frog Princess, Geese 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 Bianchi and other classics of Russian literature.

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

Leonid Viktorovich Vladimirsky(born in 1920, Moscow) is a Russian graphic artist and the most popular illustrator of books about A. N. Tolstoy's Pinocchio and A. M. Volkov's Emerald City, thanks to which he became widely known in Russia and the countries of the former USSR. I painted with watercolors. It is Vladimirsky's illustrations that many recognize as classic for Volkov's works. Well, Pinocchio in the form in which he has been known and loved by several generations of children is undoubtedly his merit.

Viktor Alexandrovich Chizhikov(born in 1935, Moscow) - People's Artist of Russia, author of the image of the bear cub Mishka, the mascot of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. The illustrator of the magazine "Crocodile", "Funny Pictures", "Murzilka", for many years he drew 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 Oz), poems by Andrey Usachev, Korney Chukovsky and Agnia Barto and other books .

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 painted for kids with great pleasure. His most famous book is cartoons 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. Stories in pictures were repeatedly reprinted not only in Russia, but also in other countries. At the international children's book competition in America in 1938, the book won 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, "Funny Pictures" magazine. The book with his poems and pictures “Pik, Pak, Pok” is already very loved by any generation of children and parents (Briff, a greedy bear, foals Chernysh and Ryzhik, fifty hares 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 - "Bilibino" - a graphic representation, taking into account the traditions of ancient Russian and folk art, a carefully traced and detailed patterned contour drawing, colored with watercolors. Bilibin's style became popular and began to be imitated.

Fairy tales, epics, images of ancient Rus' for many 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, he liked them. So the “ABC in Pictures” was printed - the first book by V. M. Konashevich. Since then, the artist has become an illustrator of children's books.
From the 1930s, illustrating children's literature became the main business of his life. Konashevich also illustrated adult literature, was engaged in painting, painted pictures in a specific technique he liked - ink or watercolor on Chinese paper.

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

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

Oleg Vladimirovich Vasiliev(born in 1931, Moscow). His works are in the collections of many art museums in Russia and the USA, incl. at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. Since the 1960s, for more than thirty years he has been designing children's books in collaboration with Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov (born in 1933, Sverdlovsk, Moscow).
The most famous are the artists' illustrations for fairy tales by Charles Perrault and Hans Andersen, poems by Valentin Berestov and fairy tales by Gennady Tsyferov.

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

- Jan Ekholm "Tutta Karlsson the First and Only, Ludwig the Fourteenth and others";
- Selma Lagerlöf "Niels' amazing journey with wild geese";
- Sergey Aksakov "The Scarlet Flower";
- Hans Christian Andersen's works.

Evgeny Ivanovich Charushin(1901-1965, Vyatka, Leningrad) - graphic artist, sculptor, prose writer and children's writer-animalist. Basically, the illustrations are executed in the manner of a free watercolor drawing, with a little humor. Kids love it, even toddlers. Known for illustrations of animals that he drew for his own stories: "About Tomka", "Volchishko and others", "Nikitka and his friends" and many others. He also illustrated other authors: Chukovsky, Prishvin, Bianki. The most famous book with his illustrations is "Children in a Cage" by Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak.

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

Ivan Maksimovich Semyonov(1906-1982, Rostov-on-Don, Moscow) - People's Artist, graphic artist, cartoonist. Semenov worked in the newspapers Komsomolskaya Pravda, Pionerskaya Pravda, the magazines Smena, Krokodil, and others. Back in 1956, on his initiative, the first humorous magazine for young children in the USSR, “Funny Pictures”, was created.
His most famous illustrations are for Nikolai Nosov's stories about Kolya and Mishka (Dreamers, Living Hat and others) and drawings "Bobik visiting Barbos".

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

- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Nazaruk(born in 1941, Moscow) is a production designer for dozens of animated films: Little Raccoon, The Adventures of Leopold the Cat, Mom for a mammoth, Bazhov's tales and illustrator of books of the same name.

- Nadezhda Bugoslavskaya(the author of the article did not find biographical information) - the author of good 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) - a contemporary artist, author of bright, well-drawn illustrations for books: "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Rudolf Raspe, "The Little Humpbacked Horse" by Pyotr Ershov, fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hoffmann, fairy tales about Russian heroes

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

- Igor Yulievich Oleinikov (born in 1953, Moscow) - animator, mainly works in hand-drawn animation, book illustrator. Surprisingly, such a talented contemporary artist does not have a special art education.
In animation, Igor Oleinikov is known for his films: The Secret of the Third Planet, The Tale of Tsar Saltan, Sherlock Holmes and I, and others. He worked with children's magazines "Tram", "Sesame Street" "Good night, kids!" and others.
Igor Oleinikov cooperates with publishing houses in Canada, USA, Belgium, Switzerland, Italy, Korea, Taiwan and Japan, participates in prestigious international exhibitions.
The most famous illustrations of the artist for books: "The Hobbit, or There and Back Again" by John Tolkien, "The Adventures of Baron Munchausen" by Erich Raspe, "The Adventures of Despero Mouse" by Kate DiCamillo, "Peter Pan" by James Barry. Recent books with illustrations by Oleinikov: poems by Daniil Kharms, Joseph Brodsky, Andrey Usachev.
A m I didn’t really want to introduce you to illustrators, to remember our childhood with you and recommend it to young parents.

(text) Anna Agrova

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BLOG AUTHOR: a fairy tale in the life of every person is very an important part life. Anyone who did not read fairy tales in childhood did not know the feeling of complete happiness and harmony within and around himself. It would seem that we remember from the very early childhood authors of wonderful fairy tales who helped us grow, instilled the best moral qualities and a sense of the high aesthetics of the world we were just entering. But sometimes we didn’t know the illustrators - who they were, what their names were, when they lived, what era brought up these wonderful artists. Well, maybe we knew Bilibin, the illustrator, because Bilibin was known to our parents, grandparents, who grew up on wonderful books, for example, "Pushkin's Tales" with illustrations by this brilliant artist.
And here, the illustrator Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev - few people mentioned or knew, except for families where someone was familiar with the subject of art history (Fine Arts and Architecture), but, nevertheless, they tried to give books with his illustrations to their offspring, especially "born with a pencil in hand" and famously chalked up walls, magazines, books, draft dissertations or other works of parents and older brothers and sisters - there is such a malicious infant tribe. If this tribe, which grew up on Bilibin, Degtyarev, Suteev, growing up did not part with a pencil, it itself began to look for and buy books illustrated by favorite authors, "so that they are always with me, then it seems that the world is in its place." And all this happened in the "prehistoric era WITHOUT INTERNET".

Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin. Illustrations for "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"

And so, the Internet appeared. It would seem - what a blessing! But no, no matter how you slip it on the infant tribe, which is also famously drawing everything in a row, but now not with harmless pencils, but with felt-tip pens and some other rubbish in the form of markers - your still favorite
books with fairy tales and pictures - the infant tribe equally deduces, in best case, something in imitation of Walt Disney and, basically, something in imitation of Japanese cartoons, so scary that even an adult with strong nerves becomes restless at a cursory glance at the computer display in which these cartoons are viewed by babies.

Suteev Vladimir Grigorievich Tales and pictures.
In one of the posts I posted a story about illustrations for fairy tales, called "VINTAGE ILLUSTRATIONS FOR FAIRY TALES" - something like this. This wonderful post inspired me to tell about my favorite fairy tales with my favorite pictures, the love for which was carried through a lifetime by more than one generation of people who lived in the USSR and, later, in the Russian Federation. Today the story will go about the Soviet illustrator of children's literature, an outstanding graphic artist, Boris Aleksandrovich Degtyarev.

Illustrator Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev

Boris Alexandrovich Dekhterev (1908-1993), Soviet graphic artist, illustrator. People's Artist RSFSR. Laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1947).
B. A. Dekhterev was born on May 31 (June 13), 1908 in Kaluga. In 1925-1926 he studied at the studio of D. N. Kardovsky, in 1926-1930 at the painting department of VKHUTEIN. He worked in the publishing house "Children's Literature" (for 32 years since 1945) as the main artist. In 1935-1937, he was an assistant to Professor A. I. Kravchenko at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, since 1948 he was the head of the graphics department at the V. I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. It can be said that the "School of Dekhterev" determined the development of the country's book graphics. Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He worked mainly in the technique of pencil drawing and watercolor.

B. A. Dekhterev was one of the first graphic artists who turned to illustrating books on the topics of modern life. He illustrated and designed the books of M. Gorky, I. S. Turgenev, M. Yu. Lermontov, A. P. Gaidar, V. Shakespeare, the tales of A. S. Pushkin (“The Tale of Tsar Saltan”, “The Tale of the Fisherman and Rybke", 1951), Ch. Perrot ("Puss in Boots") and others, fairy tales "Boy-with-finger", "Thumbelina", "Cinderella", "Little Red Riding Hood" (1949), "Blue Bird" M Maeterlinck, "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by G. Beecher Stowe, "Cement" by F. V. Gladkov, "How the Steel Was Tempered" by N. A. Ostrovsky. He also created a series of drawings on the themes of the history of the CPSU and drawings for books dedicated to the life of Soviet leaders: "Meetings with Comrade Stalin" by G. F. Baidukov (1938), "Children's and school years Ilyich" by A. I. Ulyanova, "Hut" by A. T. Kononov and others.
B. A. Dekhterev died in 1993.

Today I want to talk about contemporary children's book illustrators. When I was preparing the material for this article, I noticed that contemporary artists create very beautiful and high-quality illustrations, but mainly for middle and older children. school age. You can often see beautiful illustrations for Andersen's fairy tales, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, Hoffmann's fairy tales.

Unfortunately, I could not find modern Russian artists creating for kids. Those who could stand on a par with the names - Suteev, Charushin, Tokmakov, Miturich, Konashevich ... But, let's hope that this temporary gap will soon be filled with new bright names.

And now we present you the top 7 best modern children's illustrators of the national school.

Igor Oleinikov

This extraordinary talented artist known not only as an illustrator of children's books, but also as a great cartoonist. He took part in the creation of such wonderful cartoons as "The Secret of the Third Planet", "Caliph Stork", "The Tale of Tsar Saltan" and many others, which have managed to fall in love with viewers of all ages.

Surprisingly, one of the brightest Russian children's artists does not have a professional art education (which he regrets, by his own admission). He was born in Lyubertsy, Moscow Region, graduated from the Institute of Chemical Engineering. At the Soyuzmultfilm studio, he began work as an assistant to the production designer.

Igor Oleinikov is the winner of various animation and book festivals. His illustrations fascinate, enchant in such a way that it is hard to believe that he did not study at any art university.

Fairy tale "The Emperor and the Nightingale" G.Kh. Andersen. Publishing house Azbuka-classic

Evgeny Antonenkov

Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. For a long time collaborated with the publishing house "Rosmen". He has illustrated many books, including books by Yunna Moritz, Korney Chukovsky, Boris Zakhoder, Alan Milne, Sergey Kozlov and other authors.

“Bibigon”, K. Chukovsky

“Lemon Malinovich Compress”, Yunna Moritz

“Little Muk”, V. Gauf

Vladislav Yerko

Many mothers are probably familiar with the wonderful illustrations of this artist. My dream has always been the "Snow Queen" with drawings by Vladislav Yerko. The artist was born and lives in Kyiv, has long and successfully collaborated with the well-known Ukrainian publishing house "A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha".

Book " The Snow Queen” with illustrations by Yerko was recognized as the best children's book in the United States in 2006 and was awarded the Andersen Foundation Medal.

Evgenia Gapchinskaya

Famous children's illustrator, whose work has earned the recognition of many parents. Evgenia was born in Kharkov in 1964, where she studied. Now he lives in Kyiv and collaborates with the Kyiv publishing house "A-ba-ba-ha-la-ma-ha".

Galina Zinko

Ukrainian artist who illustrated many children's books, including fairy tales by Pushkin, Aksakov, C. Perrault, G. H. Andersen. Galina Zinko has been successfully collaborating with the Clever publishing house for a long time, so many modern parents are familiar with her romantic and touching style.

“Pigeon story”, A. Borovetskaya

“Bloshkins and Frew from Barakhta Bay”, A. Nikolskaya

Anton Lomaev

Born in 1971 in the city of Vitebsk (which gave the world Chagall and Malevich). He studied at the Academy of Arts (Repin Institute) in St. Petersburg, where he lives and works, and successfully cooperates with a number of Russian publishing houses. He is a member of the Union of Artists.

Anton Lomaev is known for his bright figurative illustrations for children's fairy tales. Among my favorites - magic illustrations to "The Little Mermaid" and other fairy tales by Andersen.

Illustrator Anton Lomaev. Fairy tale "The Little Mermaid"

Magic pictures. Illustrators of favorite children's books

When you see these drawings, you want to take it and get inside - like Alice through the Looking Glass. The artists who illustrated the favorite books of our childhood were real wizards. We bet - now you will not only see the room in which your bed was in bright colors, but also hear the voice of your mother reading a bedtime story!

Vladimir Suteev

Vladimir Suteev himself was the author of many fairy tales (for example, "Who said "MEW"?", Known for a wonderful cartoon). But most of all, we love him for all these inimitable hedgehogs, bears and bunnies - books with Suteev's animals looked literally to the holes!

Leonid Vladimirsky

Leonid Vladimirsky is the cutest in the world Scarecrow the Wise, the Tin Woodman and the Cowardly Lion, as well as the rest of the company, stomping to the Emerald City along the road paved with yellow bricks. And no less cute Pinocchio!

Viktor Chizhikov

Not a single issue of "Murzilka" and " funny pictures". He painted the world of Dragoonsky and Uspensky - and once he took and painted the immortal Olympic Bear.

Aminadav Kanevsky

Actually, Murzilka himself was created by an artist with unusual name Aminadav Kanevsky. In addition to Murzilka, he owns a lot of recognizable illustrations by Marshak, Chukovsky, Agniya Barto.

Ivan Semenov

The pencil from "Funny Pictures", as well as a lot of cartoon stories for this magazine, were drawn by Ivan Semenov. In addition to our first comics, he also created a lot of excellent drawings for Nosov's stories about Kolya and Mishka and the story of "Bobik visiting Barbos".

Vladimir Zarubin

The coolest postcards in the world are drawn by Vladimir Zarubin. He also illustrated books, but collectors now collect these cute New Year's squirrels and eight-March bunnies separately. And they do it right.

Elena Afanasyeva

Very characteristic (and so correct!) Soviet kids were produced by the artist Elena Afanasyeva. It's impossible to watch without nostalgia.

Evgeny Charushin

When the word "cute" did not yet exist, the cutest artist already existed: this is Evgeny Charushin, the chief specialist in animal life. Impossibly fluffy kittens, furry cubs and ruffled sparrows - I just wanted to strangle them all ... well, in my arms.

Anatoly Savchenko

And Anatoly Savchenko turned out the most cheerful and mischievous creatures in the world: the prodigal parrot Kesha, the lazy Vovka in Far Far Away - and the same Carlson! Other Carlsons are just wrong, that's all.

Valery Dmitryuk

Another king of enthusiasm and hooliganism is Dunno Valery Dmitryuk. And this artist equally successfully decorated adult Crocodiles.

Heinrich Walk

Another famous "crocodile" - Heinrich Valk - was remarkably able to grasp the characters of boys and girls, as well as their parents. It is in his performance that we present "Dunno on the Moon", "Vitya Maleev at school and at home", "Hottabych" and the heroes of Mikhalkov.

Konstantin Rotov

Cartoonist Konstantin Rotov depicted the most cheerful and bright (despite the fact that black and white) "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel".

Ivan Bilibin

Ivan Tsarevich and Gray wolves, firebirds and frog princesses, golden cockerels and golden fish ... In general, all folk tales and Pushkin's tales are forever Ivan Bilibin. Each detail of this intricate and patterned witchcraft can be considered indefinitely.

Yuri Vasnetsov

And even before Pushkin, we were entertained by riddles, nursery rhymes, white-sided magpies, "Cat's House" and "Teremok". And all this cheerful carousel shimmered with the colors of Yuri Vasnetsov.

Boris Dekhterev

When we grew up to "Thumbelina", "Puss in Boots" and Perrault and Andersen, Boris Dekhterev transferred us to their countries - with the help of several magic wands: colored pencils and watercolor brushes.

Edward Nazarov

The most chic Winnie the Pooh is at all with Shepard (although he is also good, what is there), but still with Eduard Nazarov! He illustrated the book and worked on our favorite cartoons. Speaking of cartoons, it was Nazarov who drew the funny heroes of the fairy tales "The Journey of the Ant" and "Once Upon a Time There Was a Dog."

Vyacheslav Nazaruk

A smiling Little Raccoon, a friendly cat Leopold and an insidious couple of mice, as well as a sad Mammoth looking for his mother - all this is the work of the artist Vyacheslav Nazaruk.

Nikolai Radlov

Serious artist Nikolai Radlov successfully illustrated children's books: Barto, Marshak, Mikhalkov, Volkov - and illustrated them in such a way that they were reprinted a hundred times. His own book, Stories in Pictures, was especially famous.

Gennady Kalinovsky

Gennady Kalinovsky - the author of very bizarre and unusual graphic drawings. His style of drawing was in perfect harmony with the mood English fairy tales- "Mary Poppins" and "Alice in Wonderland" were just that "weirder and weirder"! No less original are Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and other funny lads from Uncle Remus' Tales.

G.A.V. Traugot

The mysterious "G.A.V. Traugot sounded like the name of some magical Andersen hero. In fact, it was a whole family contract artists: Father George and his sons Alexander and Valery. And the heroes of the same Andersen they turned out to be so light, slightly careless - they are about to take off and melt!

Evgeny Migunov

Our adored Alisa Kira Bulycheva is also Alisa Evgeny Migunova: this artist illustrated literally all the books of the great science fiction writer.

Natalia Orlova

However, there was another Alice in our life - from the world cartoon "The Secret of the Third Planet". Created by Natalia Orlova. And main character the artist painted from her own daughter, and the pessimist Zeleny from her husband!

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