Vitaly Peskov

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1944 –

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Who is Vitaly Peskov?

Vitaly Viktorovich Peskov was a Russian cartoonist who also worked as an illustrator and an animation director.

In all, Peskov authored about 15,000 cartoons. His first cartoon was published in Smena in 1967, after which he was invited to the Literaturnaya Gazeta. In the following years, he worked for a variety of other publications. However, Peskov's cartoons never had an official support by the Soviet authorities, and unlike with other well-known artists, no exhibition of Peskov's works had ever been organized during his life.

After Peskov's death in 2002, his apartment was looted and his wife Irina Korshikova with her son received numerous threats and emigrated to the United States soon after. One month after Peskov's death, an exhibition of three hundred cartoons was organized by Leonid Tishov in his private gallery in Moscow. The questions of how Tishkov got a hold of the stolen cartoons and where the remaining drawings and other property are was never answered.

His widow Irina, who emigrated to the United States with the copies of 3,000 of Peskov's drawings, later created a commemorative website and published his biography To Vitaly from Irina.

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Born
May 12, 1944
Moscow

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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