Ilya Bogdesko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIlya Bogdesko
Soviet painter (1923-2010)
Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1923
Place of Birth: Butuceni, Transnistria autonomous territorial unit, Moldova
Date of Death: 29-Mar-2010
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Ilya Bogdesko
- Ilya Trofimovich Bogdesko (Russian: ????´ ?????´????? ?????´???; April 20, 1923 in Botushany near Rîbni?a Ukrainian SSR – March 29, 2010 in St.
- Petersburg, Russia) - Moldavian Soviet graphic artist, People's Painter of the USSR (1963), member of the Academy of Arts (1988). Member of the Great Patriotic War.
- Drafted into the Red Army was in 1942. One of the most famous works - illustrations for the novel by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in the technique of engraving on metal cutter, widespread in the days of Swift.
- For this work at the National competition Book Art in 1980 Bogdesko was awarded the diploma of Ivan Fedorov. For about five years created a series of 33 illustrations for the Don Quixote Cervantes.
- In the book Pungutsa Doi Ku baths (Wallet with two coin) Ion Creanga wrote all the text by hand.
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