Uncle Styopa
14.99 €
11.99 €
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Uncle Styopa
14.99 €
11.99 €
The book includes two parts of Sergei Mikhalkov's poem about the main giant Stepan Stepanov: "Uncle Styopa" and "Uncle Styopa the Policeman". The book features illustrations by Konstantin Rotov, a graphic artist, caricaturist, and book illustrator.
Konstantin Rotov "copied" the image of Uncle Styopa from the famous actor Alexei Batalov, his son-in-law. From the memoirs of Alexei Batalov: "After all, Lyosha, your shoe size is forty-five. And Uncle Styopa's too!" And the granddaughter of the famous artist and daughter of the great actor Nadezhda Batalova says the following about these illustrations: "...And I look at Mikhalkov's drawings for the poem with pleasure. How charming, sweet, dexterous, smiling, and kind Uncle Styopa-Batalov is! How good are these cheerful drawings by Rotov, which have remained for all time...".
Konstantin Rotov "copied" the image of Uncle Styopa from the famous actor Alexei Batalov, his son-in-law. From the memoirs of Alexei Batalov: "After all, Lyosha, your shoe size is forty-five. And Uncle Styopa's too!" And the granddaughter of the famous artist and daughter of the great actor Nadezhda Batalova says the following about these illustrations: "...And I look at Mikhalkov's drawings for the poem with pleasure. How charming, sweet, dexterous, smiling, and kind Uncle Styopa-Batalov is! How good are these cheerful drawings by Rotov, which have remained for all time...".
See also:
- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Masterpieces of Illustration. Russian Artists