Yevgeny Charushin

Yevgeny Charushin, Illustration to children book Vaska, Bobka and She-Rabbit, 1934

Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin (Russian: Евгений Иванович Чарушин; 11 November 1901 Vyatka – 18 February 1965 Leningrad) was a Russian painter and author in the Soviet Union.

Charushin was born to a family of a Vyatka architect. He entered the Russian Academy of Arts in 1922 and graduated in 1926.

After graduation he started to work under Vladimir Lebedev as an illustrator. His first book, Murzik by Vitaly Bianky (1928) was a big success that followed by other illustrated books. He illustrated Samuil Marshak, Mikhail Prishvin, Vladimir Arsenyev and Alexander Vvedensky. He also illustrated his own fairy tales including About a Magpie, "Seven Tales" (1930) and "Nikita And His Friends" (1938).

References

• Charushin's bio and works (Russian)
• Biography (Russian)

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Name	Charushin
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Date of birth	11 November 1901
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Date of death	18 February 1965
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