March 25, Cultural Worker's Day, President Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin presented a graduate of the Moscow State University named after Ivan Fedorov, Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova, with a prize for her contribution to the development of the national art of illustration.

It is very difficult to describe the feeling of joy, comfort, restored childhood that arises when looking at Evgenia’s work. “They smell of the field wind and damp earth, the beasts speak their own languages, everything in them is fun, absurd and strong; like in a real animal game, everything is imbued with healthy animal humor.” She didn’t have to invent her childhood, climb into the abandoned attic of memory for it. It’s right next to her, just stretch out your hand. (I’ll tell you a secret: Zhenya also plays with dolls - in the sense that she makes toys, and you can see them at exhibitions.)

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The fragile girl works with weighted lithographic plates, dozens of times improving what as a result has become completely weightless - the true art of classical book illustration. The result is masterpieces - shimmering, magical pictures that you can look at for hours and read and re-read, like real fairy tales.

This sorceress is “the bird from Diodorov’s nest.” Her name is Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova. I think you'll remember this name."

Evgeniya speaks very warmly about her beloved teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov: “He helped me believe in myself, helped me make a life choice in favor of sincere art, sincere creativity - the kind of creativity that my soul asks for.”

Butterflies. "The Magic Hill" by H.H. Andersen

Little Waterman. "Magic Hill"

Evgenia Lotsmanova was born on January 14, 1985 in Kolomna, Moscow region. She graduated from a children's art school and chose the profession of an illustrator. Drawing was my favorite pastime early childhood It is no coincidence that Evgenia’s maternal relatives were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from Moscow state university print. Winner of a diploma from the Union of Artists of Russia (2010), winner of the competition in the category “Best Children's Edition” at the Great Book Fair (Perm, 2013). Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Author of illustrations for the books “Tales of 1001 Nights” (2007), “Magpie’s Tales” by A.N. Tolstoy (2013), “The Magic Hill” by H.H. Andersen (2014), “A Little Forest Tale” by N. Maksimova (2015) . She also created a series of illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels, The Chronicles of Narnia, Tartuffe, and a series of lithographs dedicated to historical places in Russia. Participant in numerous illustration exhibitions, including three personal ones.

Ball. "Magic Hill" (clickable, but better viewed in parts)

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Heat - Bird. "Magic Hill"

Forest maidens. "Magic Hill"

Feast. "Magic Hill"Snow house. Magic Hill"

Mouse. "Magic Hill"

Cloud. "Magic Hill"Elves. "Magic Hill"

Harp. "Magic Hill"

Maximilian Voloshin a hundred years ago said this about “Magpie Tales”: “Genuine poetry, like true painting, like true feminine charm, are not accessible to words and definitions, because they themselves are already the final definitions of complex systems of feelings and states..."

On March 25, on Cultural Worker's Day, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin presented Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova, a graduate of the Moscow State University named after Ivan Fedorov, with a prize for her contribution to the development of the Russian art of illustration.

It is very difficult to describe the feeling of joy, comfort, restored childhood that arises when looking at Evgenia’s work. “They smell of the field wind and damp earth, the beasts speak their own languages, everything in them is fun, absurd and strong; like in a real animal game, everything is imbued with healthy animal humor.” She didn’t have to invent her childhood, climb into the abandoned attic of memory for it. It’s right next to her, just stretch out your hand. (I’ll tell you a secret: Zhenya also plays with dolls - in the sense that she makes toys, and you can see them at exhibitions.)

(works are clickable)

The fragile girl works with weighted lithographic plates, dozens of times improving what as a result has become completely weightless - the true art of classical book illustration. The result is masterpieces - shimmering, magical pictures that you can look at for hours and read and re-read, like real fairy tales.

This sorceress is “the bird from Diodorov’s nest.” Her name is Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova. I think you'll remember this name."

Evgeniya speaks very warmly about her beloved teacher Boris Arkadyevich Diodorov: “He helped me believe in myself, helped me make a life choice in favor of sincere art, sincere creativity - the kind of creativity that my soul asks for.”

Butterflies. "The Magic Hill" by H.H. Andersen

Little Waterman. "Magic Hill"

Evgenia Lotsmanova was born on January 14, 1985 in Kolomna, Moscow region. She graduated from a children's art school and chose the profession of an illustrator. It is no coincidence that drawing was a favorite pastime from early childhood; Evgenia’s maternal relatives were icon painters in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow province. In 2007, Evgenia graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts. Recipient of a diploma from the Union of Artists of Russia (2010), winner of the competition in the category “Best Children's Edition” at the Great Book Fair (Perm, 2013). Member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

Author of illustrations for the books “Tales of 1001 Nights” (2007), “Magpie’s Tales” by A.N. Tolstoy (2013), “The Magic Hill” by H.H. Andersen (2014), “A Little Forest Tale” by N. Maksimova (2015) . She also created a series of illustrations for Gulliver’s Travels, The Chronicles of Narnia, Tartuffe, and a series of lithographs dedicated to historical places in Russia. Participant in numerous illustration exhibitions, including three personal ones.

Ball. "Magic Hill" (clickable, but better viewed in parts)

(clickable)

Heat - Bird. "Magic Hill"

Forest maidens. "Magic Hill"

Feast. "Magic Hill"Snow house. Magic Hill"

Mouse. "Magic Hill"

Cloud. "Magic Hill"Elves. "Magic Hill"

Harp. "Magic Hill"

Maximilian Voloshin a hundred years ago said this about “Magpie Tales”: “Genuine poetry, like true painting, like true feminine charm, are not accessible to words and definitions, because they themselves are already the final definitions of complex systems of feelings and states..."

According to tradition, on Cultural Worker’s Day, awards are presented in the Kremlinpeople who have dedicated their creativity to the younger generations, as well as those who, despite their own young years, have already said their significant word in art.

Some of the laureates have already recognized masters, others are barely thirty. But their achievements in the field fine arts and music are undeniable. Those who receive awards on this day make a huge contribution to the formation in society moral values and moral guidelines.

Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova is a laureate of the President of the Russian Federation Prize for young cultural figures in 2015.The prize was awarded for his contribution to the development of the Russian art of illustration.

Evgenia Lotsmanova is an illustrator. Her work is distinguished by its amazing attractiveness, kind and bright attitude towards the characters, and attentive attitude to the text.The illustrations are made using the technique of color lithography using heavy lithographic stone, which requires a lot of patience and physical strength.

E. Lotsmanova is a worthy successor to the traditions of Russian book illustration, the legacy of T. Mavrina, Y. Vasnetsov, E. Rachev, B. Diodorov. But the young artist has a unique style of her own.

“Unfortunately, now many talented young illustrators are leaving the profession due to life and financial difficulties. And this award, I am sure, will be able to show that the illustrator’s profession is honorable, significant and supported by the state at the highest level,” the laureate emphasized.

Elena Andreevna Cheburashkina is a laureate of the President of the Russian Federation Prize for young cultural figures in 2015. The prize was awarded for his contribution to the development of domestic design and art education.

For the first time, among those awarded this prize is not a writer or a musician, but a representative of the applied profession - a designer. Elena Cheburashkina graduate and teacherDepartment of "Artistic Design of Furniture" MGHPU named after. S.G. Stroganova, teaches the disciplines “Project” and “Ergonomics in Furniture”, lectures on the history of furniture design of the 20th century. Elenais engaged in interior design of kindergartens, develops unique furniture for kindergartens, which is at the same time a means of development and entertainment for the child. You can draw on its tables, and the play area easily turns into a child's bedroom.

"Thank you so much to my loving husband, to my patient children, mom and dad. Mom, dad, thank you for raising me like this. Perhaps, at least now you will stop calling me a little pig,” Elena Cheburashkina said in her speech.

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“An illustrator is his own director, decorator and actor. I live the lives of my characters, conveying the character. The art of book illustration is very similar to theater, sometimes you want the characters to jump out of the book and start talking.”

Lotsmanova Evgenia

Evgenia Lotsmanova(b. 1989) - a young Moscow artist, a graduate of the Faculty of Graphic Arts of the Moscow University of Printing Arts.

Evgenia was born and studied in Kolomna, attended art school. I started drawing from early childhood. She loved to portray fairy-tale characters, small animals, which are very often found in Russian folk tales. In 2002, she entered the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, Faculty of Book Graphics, and her hobby became a profession. All her works are made in the best traditions of the Russian school of illustration. Now Evgenia lives in Moscow.

The artist began working on creating drawings for “Magpie Tales” a long time ago, back in 2004, but the result appeared only eight years later. This is due to the choice of execution technique, a very complex and time-consuming one - lithography. To create one picture, according to Evgenia Lotsmanova herself, it takes her from one to several months. (Lithography - writing, drawing and artistic drawing on the stone with ink and a pencil of a special composition, as well as scratching with a needle, followed by printing impressions on paper.)

Here’s what Evgenia herself says about working on “Magpie Tales”:

"I have loved Tolstoy's fairy tales since childhood. His Russian language is very rich. It's great to feel that time, village life with huts, geese walking in the yard, with horses, a threshing floor, a well. I wanted to show all this. And the lithography is very unusual technique– it’s interesting to create one sketch and then vary the color in different ways. It's a fun artistic process that produces different effects."

Alexey Nikolaevich Tolstoy wrote “Magpie Tales” a century ago. This was his first prose book. The happy author just turned 24 years old. And his book breathed with happiness, which was considered bad form in the decadent literature of that time.

One Maximilian Voloshin welcomed her appearance in the Apollo magazine: “I don’t want to talk about “Magpie Tales” by Alexei Tolstoy - it’s hard to talk about. And this is the greatest praise that can be given to the book. It is so spontaneous, so genuine that you don’t want to retell it - you want to quote it all from beginning to end. This is one of those books that will be read a lot, but not talked about..."

And so it happened: there are neither separate studies nor detailed criticism about “Magpie Tales”. For readers and literary critics, they remained in the shadow of the huge “Peter the Great,” the epic “Walking through Torment” and the brilliant “Golden Key,” although “Magpie Tales” are originally the author’s, Tolstoy’s, and not translated or retold. Those mysterious heroes who inhabited the rural childhood of the impressionable boy Alyosha Tolstoy came to life in them.

The closest thing “Magpie Tales” is, of course, to “Nikita’s Childhood”. It would be worth publishing them together one day, but no one has figured it out yet. There, after all, the heroes run from one book to another. The same Mishka Koryashonok, the Konchansk boys and Averyan’s hut - all this was transferred to “Nikita’s Childhood” from the fairy tale “The Snow House”.

In "Magpie Tales" one can guess that cheerful, flowery as a patchwork quilt, direction of Russian literature for children, which will lead to the appearance of Stepan Pisakhov and Boris Shergin, and many years later - Yuri Koval, Gennady Novozhilov, Boris Sergunenkov...

But the first to sit down to sew this wonderful blanket was the restless young Count Alexei Nikolaevich Tolstoy. You read his fairy tales and marvel: how delicious it turns out to be - speaking and reading aloud in Russian! There, at the threshold, “a cat purred,” in the distance, “the trees became gloomy,” the boys grabbed a sled and ran “to tumble off the sledges.” They run up, dash around, and then: “Who called me? - Ugomon muttered under the stove,” and the children fell into a deep sleep. And the next day they will rub their eyes and see: “a matinee was flashing in the window, like skimmed milk...”.

The very rhythm of Tolstoy's narrative is fascinating. This rhythm is boyish, daring and absolutely cheerless.

It seems that I am approaching too slowly the occasion that gave me the opportunity to re-read “Magpie Tales” and remind you of them. And this occasion is the release of Tolstoy’s fairy tales in the publishing house “World of Childhood” with illustrations by Evgenia Lotsmanova.

Not only the artist, but also everyone who saw her illustrations for A.N.’s fairy tales had been waiting patiently for this publication for a long time. Tolstoy at exhibitions. It is impossible to forget them. It is very difficult to describe the feeling of joy, comfort, returned childhood that arises when looking at the works of Evgenia Lotsmanova. And I would like to repeat the words written by Maximilian Voloshin a hundred years ago regarding “Magpie Tales”: “Genuine poetry, like true painting, like true feminine charm, is not accessible to words and definitions, because they in themselves are already final definitions complex systems of feelings and states..."

“Magpie Tales” had, of course, been illustrated before, but there were no masterpieces. Something did not go well in the artists’ relationship with these seemingly simple fairy tales; something important in the image was slipping away. And Evgenia Lotsmanova happily coincided in her worldview with the writer, probably because she began to write her illustrations at the same age at which Alexei Tolstoy began writing his fairy tales. She didn’t have to invent her childhood, climb into the abandoned attic of memory for it. It’s right next to her, just stretch out your hand. (I’ll tell you a secret: Zhenya also plays with dolls - in the sense that she makes toys, and you can see them at exhibitions.)

The publishing house "World of Childhood" published a book with surprising respect for our days to a young artist who does not yet have titles or awards. This respect is expressed both in the impeccable printing execution and in the fact that the preface “From the Publisher” is dedicated to it. They say not only kind things about her, but also very high words: “The artist of this book accomplished a feat... Her name is Evgenia Nikolaevna Lotsmanova. Remember this name." In Lotsmanova’s illustrations (and they were executed using the most difficult technique of color lithography), art critics will find echoes of great masters - with the village pastorals of Efim Chestnyakov and the legendary “Ladushki” of Yuri Vasnetsov. And, of course, with the works of Zhenya’s teacher, head of the book illustration workshop at the Moscow University of Printing Arts, folk artist Russia by Boris Diodorov.

Evgenia Lotsmanova created her own secluded world, densely populated with children and toys, insects and little animals. There, the Firebird shines every evening like a table lamp, and even tells fairy tales. The strongest animal there is a kind hedgehog. There a fat nanny sings sleepy songs through her nose. There are fearless children for a long time winter evenings play "pretend".

And they are fearless because they are not afraid of anyone and save everyone. Thus, in the fairy tale “The Giant”, the giant turns out to be the miller’s grandson Petka, who saved a whole town of little people and their king. I just saved it like that. In the town, all the bells rang with joy, and Petka scratched the back of his shorn head and went to catch the fish.

So Zhenya Lotsmanova gave us a book that we always seemed to be looking for under our pillows and never found. She gave it to me and went home to finish drawing pictures for Andersen.

We'll wait until he finishes the drawing.

Dmitry Shevarov