"The princess Din" from Michael Shcheglov (1912)
 

Artist Michael M. Shcheglov (1885-1955). Born g.Samara.Svoi childhood years he spent in the road. His father worked in the exploratory party, paving the route of the Great Siberian railway. Nomadic life ended in the city of Krasnoyarsk. Michael entered the gymnasium, where a lot of enthusiasm and painted.
His mother took a job working housekeeper - cook in the family of industrialists known Siberian Kuznetsov, whose father helped in his time the great Russian artist VI Surikov come to study at the Academy of Arts.
Mother of Michael, though was a simple woman, but was able to discern in his son the ability to draw. She has made a heroic act: work and threw money at last drove Misha Moscow. Kuznetsov gave her a letter of recommendation to Surikov, which was extremely warmly welcomed and helped the boy to enter the Stroganov Art School.
After graduating from college in 1906 with honors. For four years he tried different genres and techniques of painting. I reached such success that he received in 1910 an order from Moscow's famous publisher IV IDSytin for illustration luxury posthumous novel, LN Tolstoy's "Anna Karenina". Then he issued a series of drawings from life Narym Ostyaks and illustrated several children's books. On August 16, 1915 MM Shcheglov number of teachers of graphic arts Rybinsk Commercial College. In 1918 in Rybinsk opened the first art studio Proletkult, whose leader became MM Shcheglov. The disciples were Shcheglova - Nikolai Sokolov (1903-2000), member of the Commonwealth Kukryniksy. Grigory Bazurin - the main artist of the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, Lev Pisarevskii became a famous sculptor, students Proletkult, a member of the Rybinsk scientific society was a young P. Kondratyev, a future student of Kazimir Malevich, continuing the traditions of Russian avant-garde, Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
One Sytin children's books, illustrated by Michael Shcheglov, this tale VI Sadovnikova "Do Dinh Princess" in 1912