Artist Viktor Chizhikov

Viktor Aleksandrovich Chizhikov (1935-2020) is the author of the symbol of the Moscow Olympiad Misha, an illustrator and caricaturist, one of the most famous artists working in the children"s book. “I am a cartoonist for the smallest,” said Viktor Alexandrovich, although he began his work with satirical drawings in the journal Crocodile. When his children"s illustrations appeared in "funny pictures" and "Murzilka", everyone noticed them. Bright and original, pierced by warmth and kindness, they fell in love with children and adults.

And this very cheerful and very talented artist illustrated many children"s books of famous domestic and foreign writers and his own. “Children"s literature is much more important than an adult, because it is the foundation of the future person,” Viktor Alexandrovich believed.

In this book, Viktor Chizhikov appears not only as a wonderful storyteller and a brilliant cartoonist, but also as a good comrade, enthusiastic, friendly, delicate and very trusting person, as his friends and loved ones saw the artist