Milashevsky, Vladimir Alekseevich

He began to study in Saratov , at the Bogolyubovsky drawing school under V. Konovalov (1906-1907). In 1911-1913 he studied in Kharkov in the studio of A. Grot and E. Steinberg, in 1913-1915 in St. Petersburg-Petrograd at the Higher Art School at the Academy of Arts , teachers Nikolai Bruni , A. Tvorozhnikov, Hugo Zaleman and Alexander Makovsky .

He worked in the "New Art Studio" (1915-1916) under the leadership of Mstislav Dobuzhinsky , Evgeny Lansere and Alexander Yakovlev . In 1920, Mikhail Kuzmin 's collection “ Curtained Pictures ” illustrated several erotic drawings, and the next year he designed the book “What is a Theater” by Nikolai Evreinov . The first exhibition of Milashevsky is the exposition of the participants of the Petrograd House of Arts ("Disc") in 1921.

Since 1924, Milashevsky worked in Moscow. One of the most active participants and ideologists of the group "13" (1929-1931). Protecting the spontaneous drawing, Milashevsky wrote: “Let the pen, dipped in ink,“ frolic ”on paper, like a happy young girl in dance, let it be sharp, smile, and irony” ^[1] .

In recent decades, Milashevsky worked a lot as a book graphic: Russian (Pushkin, The Little Humpbacked Horse by Ershov — reprinted repeatedly, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Blok) and a foreign classic ( Posthumous Notes of the Pickwick Club by Dickens, Flaubert) came out with his illustrations. also books by contemporaries (“Thirteen Tubes” by Ehrenburg, “Ural Tales” by Bazhov), children's books.

Milashevsky is the author of memoirs (“Yesterday, the day before yesterday ... Memoirs of the artist”, M., 1972, 2nd, substantially enlarged edition, M., 1989; “My work in the publishing house“ Academia ”” , etc.).

• Moscow - 1973, 1978
• Pushkin - 1965
• Voronezh - 1966
• Perm - 1976