Never thought about Alfeevskom, as OSTovtse ...
To me he loved (one of the favorite) and illustrator of children, for some "Tales" Benjamin Kaverina grateful.
And already in adult life art in me agreed with the child in me that this artist is good.
This was the first artist-illustrator, with a light dose of formalism, of which I was once, not without some resistance, agreed. And even some time afterwards pririsovyvala their Princesses stylized angular bows
And this meeting the sun with an umbrella and snow reminded me later in the mathematics lesson when meeting with a Venn diagram, one hell knows why

subset of flowers in one plane, probably ...