About Vasily Chekrygin
Lived 1897 – 1922 (aged 25). Vasily Chekrygin was a Russian painter, graphic artist, illustrator and draftsperson.
Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrygin (; January 19, 1897, Zhizdra, Kaluga Oblast - June 3, 1922, the station Mamontovka, Moscow region) was a Soviet painter, graphic artist.
Biography He spent his childhood in Kiev. He studied at the school of icon painting at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and urban school (course of 6 years). At thirteen he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
The first illustrated and printed in lithography poetry of Mayakovsky.
Creative and the life of the artist broke very early. At the age of twenty-five years Chekrygin died after being hit by a train.
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Who was Vasily Chekrygin?
Russian painter (1897-1922)
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Vasily Chekrygin was born on 6 January 1897 in Zhizdra.
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Vasily Chekrygin died on 3 June 1922 in Mamontovskaya.
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Vasily Chekrygin was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator and draftsperson.
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Vasily Chekrygin was Russian.
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