Praski Vitti

Praski Vitti (Chuvash and , born Vitaly Petrovich Petrov, Виталий Петрович Петров; 17 September 1936 – 30 January 2026) was a Russian Chuvash artist, painter, and muralist.

As well as being an honored artist of the RSFSR, he also held the People's Artist of the Chuvash Republic, Member of the National Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Chuvash Republic, Laureate of State Prize of the Chuvash Republic of the Peter Egorov, and Professor at Chuvash State Pedagogical University.

Life and career Vitaly Petrov was born on 17 September 1936, as Petrol Vitaly Petrovich in Algazino, a village of the Vurnarsky District of the Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (USSR).

He experienced many hardships during his time with the military, and he starved,

Vitti was educated at the Cheboksary Art School, then went to study at the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design.

He illustrated pearl Chuvash literature – a poem by Konstantin Ivanov. Vitti also illustrated the poems of the poet Andrei Voznesensky.

Vitti died on 30 January 2026, at the age of 89.

Participation in exhibitions From the mid-1970s, Vitti had works exhibited in the German Democratic Republic, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Spain, United States, West Germany, India, Japan, and Turkey.

His works are kept in museums and private collections around the world.

Personal exhibitions 1984, 1987, 1993, 1996 «Graphic poetry» – Chuvash State Art Museum (Cheboksary) 1990 «K. Ivanov’s World Poetry» (Moscow) 1993, 1996 – Showroom, Novocheboksarsk 1995 «Finding new homeland Hungarians» – Chuvash State Institute of Humanities (Cheboksary) 2011 – Chuvash State Art Museum (Cheboksary)

Participation in exhibitions II International Exhibition of enamel art (Moscow, 1991) International Exhibition of enamels (Covington, Kentucky, United States, 1991) International creative center enamel (Kecskemet, Hungary) Enamels and exhibition graphics (Budapest, 1992) Berlin (1993, 1994, 1996, 1998) International Exhibition (Yaroslavl, 1995), St. Petersburg (1995), Peterhof (1995) Tokyo (1996) Moscow (1997) Paris (1999) Troyes (France, 2002) Barcelona (Spain, 2002)

Awards and honors The first prize of the international creative center enamel (Kecskemet, Hungary) Diploma of the International Exhibition in Salou (Spain) Chuvashia State Prize of the Peter Egorov Diploma III Moscow international exhibition of enamel art Award of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of literature and art Order of Friendship