The main source of motivation over time, impressions of travel, exploring and Zagorsk (now Sergiev Posad), Uglich, Rostov, Alexandrov, Suzdal, Pereslavl-Zaleski and other homes of architectural antiques, amounting to many years of heavy machine-cycle of an old Russian cities (1942-1968) . At the same time was working on illustrating fairy tales (design of children's books of Pushkin's Tale of the Dead Princess and Seven Knights, 1949; Ruslan and Ludmila, 1960; U Lukomorya, 1961, as well as compilations - The wave of the wand, 1958; Russian Fairy Tales, 1963). In 1960 the two lines, full-scale, landscape and fabulous, merged into a common channel, creating a colorful stream of iso-folklore, absorbing, in addition to routine genre, a lot of motivation from lubok, tiles, painted spinning wheels, gingerbread planks. Picture books have become self-sufficient artistic albums, where the sparkling "modern splints" has certainly dominate the text.
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