Mikhail Mikhailovich Tsekhanovsky (Russian: Михаил
Михайлович Ð¦ÐµÑ…Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1889
â€" 22 June 1965) was a Russian and Soviet artist, animation director,
book illustrator, screenwriter, sculptor and educator. He was one of
the founders and unchallenged leaders of the Leningrad school of
Soviet animation. Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR (1964).Mikhail
Tsekhanovsky was born in Proskurov (modern-day Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)
into a Russian noble family. His father Mikhail Yurievich Tsekhanovsky
(Polish: Ciechanowski) (1859â€"1928/29) was an Active State Councillor
and a sugar manufacturer, an official representative of the
All-Russian Society of Sugar Manufacturers who emigrated to Paris
following the October Revolution. His mother Zinaida Grigorievna
Tsekhanovskaya died in 1899 aged 32.Tsekhanovsky was raised in Saint
Petersburg and studied in the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium, the
most prestigious school of its time where only children of noblemen
were accepted. He started painting while still in gymnasium, and upon
graduation left for Paris where he was trained as a sculptor in
private workshops between 1908 and 1910. On his return Tsekhanovsky
entered the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Saint Petersburg Imperial
University Faculty of Law, but left both of them with the start of the
World War I and moved to Moscow. He then entered the Moscow School of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture which he finished in 1918.Same
year he was enrolled to the 16th Army by the Soviet authorities where
his talents were used for agitprop. Tsekhanovsky drew posters,
designed agitational trains, painted cinemas and clubs, carved
sculptures and made scenery for the front theatre. From 1920 to 1922
he also headed the art studio at the Smolensk Red Army University.
Among his students was Mikhail Volpin who later wrote screenplays for
many of his animated projects.
Михайлович Ð¦ÐµÑ…Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹; 7 June [O.S. 26 May] 1889
â€" 22 June 1965) was a Russian and Soviet artist, animation director,
book illustrator, screenwriter, sculptor and educator. He was one of
the founders and unchallenged leaders of the Leningrad school of
Soviet animation. Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR (1964).Mikhail
Tsekhanovsky was born in Proskurov (modern-day Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine)
into a Russian noble family. His father Mikhail Yurievich Tsekhanovsky
(Polish: Ciechanowski) (1859â€"1928/29) was an Active State Councillor
and a sugar manufacturer, an official representative of the
All-Russian Society of Sugar Manufacturers who emigrated to Paris
following the October Revolution. His mother Zinaida Grigorievna
Tsekhanovskaya died in 1899 aged 32.Tsekhanovsky was raised in Saint
Petersburg and studied in the First Saint Petersburg Gymnasium, the
most prestigious school of its time where only children of noblemen
were accepted. He started painting while still in gymnasium, and upon
graduation left for Paris where he was trained as a sculptor in
private workshops between 1908 and 1910. On his return Tsekhanovsky
entered the Imperial Academy of Arts and the Saint Petersburg Imperial
University Faculty of Law, but left both of them with the start of the
World War I and moved to Moscow. He then entered the Moscow School of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture which he finished in 1918.Same
year he was enrolled to the 16th Army by the Soviet authorities where
his talents were used for agitprop. Tsekhanovsky drew posters,
designed agitational trains, painted cinemas and clubs, carved
sculptures and made scenery for the front theatre. From 1920 to 1922
he also headed the art studio at the Smolensk Red Army University.
Among his students was Mikhail Volpin who later wrote screenplays for
many of his animated projects.
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