Aleksandr Zugrin

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Aleksandr Ivanovich Zugrin (1899–1923) was a Russian avant-garde painter, illustrator and graphic artist. He joined the Moscow Proletkult movement and became one of the era’s most widely published artists after the Russian Revolution, creating engravings and linocuts for journals such as Gorn (Furnace, published by Proletkult), Tvori! (Create!), and Tvorchestvo (Creation), and designing book jackets for anthologies of proletarian poetry.