Nikolai Mikhailovich Kochergin (1897-1974)

[Daos]

I accidentally found an illustration by him today and I immediately recognised it from a book of folk tales my mother used to read to me as a child:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JOcWciIVm4s/TiyAXsjzRyI/AAAAAAAAA60/EdMie8iL0lg/s1600/povesti+fermecate.jpg

Amazing artwork!:thumb001:

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699461.jpg

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699460.jpg

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699458.jpg

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http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699447.jpg

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699445.jpg

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699441.jpg

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http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699437.jpg

http://img1.liveinternet.ru/images/foto/708697/f_699434.jpg

I must have spent hours on end staring at these pictures, immersing myself in that world.:)