Rodionov Mikhail Semenovich

He studied in Moscow, initially in the studios of F. Rerberg and I. Mashkov, then at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the painting department (1908-1910) and after a break in the sculpture department (1915-1918). In the 1920s was a member of the art association "Makovets". In the pre-war period, he actively worked in the field of book illustration, especially for the works of L. N. Tolstoy; The best of these works is named by the Great Encyclopedia "Terra" as lithographs for the story "Kholstomer" (1934, for the publishing house "Academia"). Among the later works, a series of lithographic portraits of cultural figures stands out. Since 1909, he was married to landscape artist Elizaveta Vladimirovna Giatsintova (1888-1965), daughter of art critic Vladimir Giatsintov and sister of actress Sofia Giatsintova. He taught drawing at VKHUTEMAS-VKHUTEIN, MPI, MIIII, Moscow State Art Institute named after. Surikov.