Vladimir Mikhaylovich Konashevich ' onMouseout='HidePop("8011")' href="/topics/Novocherkassk">Novocherkassk

Novocherkassk

Novocherkassk is a city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the right bank of the Tuzlov River and on the Aksay River. Population: 169,039 ; 170,822 ; 178,000 ; 123,000 ; 81,000 ; 52,000 ....

—February 27, 1963, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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) was a Russian graphic artist and illustrator. Among his artwork are scores for Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut

Manon Lescaut is a short novel by French author Abbé Prévost. Published in 1731, it is the seventh and final volume of Mémoires et aventures d'un homme de qualité . It was controversial in its time and was banned in France upon publication...

and Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

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's The Fairy Tales.

Konashevich also illustrated the works of Samuil Marshak

Samuil Marshak

Samuil Yakovlevich Marshak was a Russian and Soviet writer, translator and children's poet. Among his Russian translations are William Shakespeare's sonnets, poems by William Blake and Robert Burns, and Rudyard Kipling's stories. Maxim Gorky proclaimed Marshak to be "the founder of [Russia's ]...

 and issues of the publishing house Academia

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. His story O sebye i svoyom dele (About Me and My Work) was published in 1968.

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