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1876, Tarkhovka, St Petersburg Province — 1942, Leningrad

Graphic artist, theatrical designer. Studied at the Faculty of Law, St Petersburg University (1896–1900), School of Drawing, Society for the Encouragement of Arts (1895–1898), Anton Ažbè’s school in Munich (1898), under Ilya Repin at the Princess Maria Tenisheva School (1898–1900) and at the Higher School of Art, Imperial Academy of Arts (1900–1904). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1900). Founding member of the World of Art (1900–1917). Drew for World of Art, Hell’s Post, Bugbear and Golden Fleece and magazines. Designed for theatres (from 1907). Illustrated and designed children’s books — traditional heroic poems, folk tales and the fairytales of Alexander Pushkin — for publishing houses in St Petersburg (1900s). Illustrated the fairytales of Alexander Pushkin for Goslitizdat (1930s). Created his own highly original style of book design, based on the motifs of Russian folk and medieval art. 

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Volga and Militia
Volga and Militia
1902
Иллюстрации к «Сказке о царе Салтане» А.С.Пушкина
Иллюстрации к «Сказке о царе Салтане» А.С.Пушкина
1905
Афиша «Сказки. Рисунки И. Я. Билибина»
Афиша «Сказки. Рисунки И. Я. Билибина»
Корабль
Корабль
1926
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