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Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin (Russian: Иван Яковлевич Билибин, IPA: [ɪˈvan ˈjakəvlʲɪvʲɪt͡ɕ bʲɪˈlʲibʲɪn]; 16 August [O.S. 4 August] 1876 – 7 February 1942) was a Russian illustrator and stage designer who took part in the Mir iskusstva ("World of Art"), contributed to the Ballets Russes, co-founded the Union of Russian Artists, and from 1937 was a member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. Ivan Bilibin gained popularity with his illustrations of Russian folk tales and Slavic folklore. Throughout his career he was inspired by the art and culture of medieval Russia. Biography Ivan Bilibin was born in Tarkhovka, a suburb of St. Petersburg. In 1898 he studied at Anton Ažbe's Art School in Munich, where he was heavily influenced by Art Nouveau and the German satirical journal Simplicissimus, and then under Ilya Repin in St. Petersburg. Bilibin gained some success as early as 1899, when he first released illustrations for Russian fairy tales. The same year, after the formation of the artists' association Mir Iskusstva, in which Bilibin was an active member, his career as an illustrator of books and magazines began with a commission for its magazine Mir Iskusstva. He later also contributed essays on Russian folk art. Artistic designs for other magazines such as Dog Rose (Шиповник) and productions of a Moscow publishing house followed. After graduating in May 1901, Bilibin went to Munich, where he completed his training with the painter Anton Ažbe. In the period 1902 to 1904, working under the Russian Museum (Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III) Bilibin traveled to the Vologda, Olonetsk, and Arkhangelsk Governorates, performing ethnographic research and studying examples of Russian wooden architecture. In 1904 he published his findings in the monograph Folk Arts of the Russian North. Old Russian art had a great influence on his work. Another influence on his art was traditional Japanese prints and Renaissance woodcuts. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, Bilibin drew revolutionary cartoons, especially for the magazine Zhupel (Жупелъ), which in 1906 was banned because of his illustration depicting the emperor as a donkey. In 1909 Bilibin served as the designer for the first stage production of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel. In 1911, Bilibin was hired by the State Paper Manufacturing Section to illustrate ball programs, exhibition and book posters, postcards for the Red Cross's Society of St. Eugenia, and envelopes and stationery with the Russian Bogatyrs. After the October Revolution of 1917, Bilibin left Russia, the new Bolshevik government proving alien to him. Hungry for a new exotic environment, in 1920 Bilibin went to stay in Egypt. He moved to Cairo and Alexandria, where he painted for the Greek colony. In Cairo, he specialized in the Byzantine-style art that was in demand by the Greek colony for icons and frescoes. He was also enraptured by the architecture of mosques and their "head-spinning ornamentation". In 1925, Bilibin settled in Paris, where he took to decorating private houses and Orthodox churches. He still longed for his homeland, in 1936, and after decorating the Soviet Embassy, he returned to Soviet Russia. Bilibin died during the Siege of Leningrad, starving within the city when he refused to leave, and was buried in a collective grave. Marital life In 1902 Bilibin married his former student, the Irish-Russian painter and illustrator of children's stories Maria Chambers. They had two sons, Alexander (1903) and Ivan (1908). In 1912 he again married a former student, the art school graduate Renée O'Connell (Рене Рудольфовна О'Коннель), granddaughter of Daniel O'Connell. In 1923 he married the painter Aleksandra Shchekatikhina-Pototskaya (Александра Васильевна Щекатихина-Потоцкая), with whom he had a joint exhibition in Amsterdam in 1929. Publications Folktales published by the "Department for the Production of State Documents" Сказка об Иване-царевиче, Жар-птице и о Сером волке [The Tale of Ivan the Tsar's Son, The Firebird and the Grey Wolf] (in Russian), [N.p.] Izdanie Ekspeditsii zagotovleniia gosudarstvennykh bumag, 1899 . alt link Василиса Прекрасная [Vassilisa the Beautiful] (in Russian), 1899 Царевна-Лягушка [The Frog Princess] (in Russian), 1899 Перышко Финиста Ясна-Сокола [The Feather of Finist the Falcon] (in Russian), 1900 Марья Моревна [Maria Morevna] (in Russian), [N.p.] Izdanie Ekspeditsii zagotovleniia gosudarstvennykh' bumag, 1901 Сестрица Аленушка и братец Иванушка [Sister Alenushka and Brother Ivanushka] (in Russian), 1901–1902 Белая уточка [The Little White Duck] (in Russian), 1902 Былина "Вольга" [The epic "Volga"] (in Russian), 1903 , pdf Collections in translated tales : Wheeler, Post, ed. (1917), Russian Wonder Tales , twelve selected illustrations Afanasyev, Alexander (1996), Russkie narodnye skazki - Russian Fairy Tales (in Russian and English) , selection from "State Department" work (1899-1902) that includes Sister Alionushka..; Tsarevich Ivan, the Firebird, and the Grey Wolf; The Frog Tsarevna; Vasilisa..; Feather of Finist; White Duck; and Maria Morevna. Main illustrations only Illustrations of Pushkin's tales Pushkin, Alexander (1834), Сказка о золотом петушке [The Tale of the Golden Cockerel] (in Russian) Pushkin, Alexander (1905) [1831], Сказка о царе Салтане [The Tale of Tsar Saltan] (in Russian) Pushkin, Alexander, Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке [The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish] (in Russian) , unpublished Pushkin, Alexander, Руслан и Людмила [Ruslan and Ludmilla] (in Russian) Other Roslavlev, A.S. (1911), Сказки [Fairy Tales] (in Russian) Поди туда — не знаю куда, принеси то — не знаю что… [Go there - I do not know where, bring that - I do not know what ...] (in Russian), 1919 , unpublished Contes de l'Isba [Tales from a Hut] (in French), 1931 Carpenter, Francis (1932–1933), Tales of a Russian Grandmother Contes de la couleuvre [Tales of the Snake] (in French), 1932 Conte du petit poisson d'or [Tale of the little Golden Fish] (in French), 1933 Le Tapis Volant [The Flying Carpet] (in French), 1924 Le farouche Abd-el-Kader (in French), 1936 Adhémar de Montgon. Henri IV (in French), 1936 Anderson, H.C. (1937), The Little Mermaid (in Russian) Percheron, M. (1937), Moscou (in French) Tolstoy, A.N., Петр Первый [Peter the Great] (in Russian) Песнь про царя Ивана Васильевича, молодого опричника и удалого купца Ивана Калашникова [A song about Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich, a young oprichnik and the successful merchant Ivan Kalashnikov] (in Russian), 1939 Vodovozov, N.V. (1940), Слово о стольном Киеве и о русских богатырях [Stories of the capital Kiev and Russian Heroes] (in Russian) Gallery References External links Works of Ivan Bilibin at Cascadia Graphics Ivan Yakovlevich Bilibin at the Wayback Machine (archived December 2, 2005) at ww.... Discover the Maria Peitcheva popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Maria Peitcheva books.