Vasily ChekryginVasily Nikolaevich Chekrygin (Russian: Василий Никoлаeвич Чeкpыгин; January 19, 1897, Zhizdra, Kaluga Oblast - June 3, 1922, the station Mamontovka, Moscow region) was a Soviet painter, graphic artist. BiographyHe spent his childhood in Kiev. He studied at the school of icon painting at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and urban school (course of 6 years). At thirteen he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.[1] The first illustrated and printed in lithography poetry of Mayakovsky.[2] Creative and the life of the artist broke very early. At the age of twenty-five years Chekrygin died after being hit by a train.[1] References
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