Mikhail Sokolov Ksenofontovich (1885 - 1947)

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Mikhail Sokolov Ksenofontovich ( in 1885 - one thousand nine hundred forty-seven )

30 years ago I had occasion to visit the home of Elena Dmitrievna Tannenberg - the artist- animator , stunning the narrator , and in general - a wonderful man. Yelena was a close friend of his wife Sokolova, and after her death, kept a large folder of drawings and sketches of the camp of Michael Xenofontovich (probably later transferred to Yaroslavl Museum). Absolutely masterly drawings made of burnt match on the barn klochochke books or chalk on a piece of blue envelope, pencil stub , or God knows what. The miracle is that when in '43 Michael Xenofontovich from the camp " saktirovali " (translated to human - have thrown out to die from scurvy, pellagra , and tuberculosis ), then allowed to pick up those scraps . So many years have passed , and the pictures are before the eyes . Gentle , precise , brilliant.
Heaven Michael Ksenofontovich . Heaven Elena Dmitrievna.