Background
Anatoly Tychina was born on May 11, 1897, in Gruzdžiai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Gruzdžiai, Panevėžys County, Lithuania). He was a son of Maria Florianovna Tychina and Nikolay Tychina.
1964
Anatoly Tychina during a trip along the Belarusian rivers, 1964.
Penza, Russian Federation
During the period from 1915 till 1917, Tychina studied at Konstantin Savitsky Art School in Penza.
Anatoĺ Tyčyna
Anatoly Tychina was born on May 11, 1897, in Gruzdžiai, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire (present-day Gruzdžiai, Panevėžys County, Lithuania). He was a son of Maria Florianovna Tychina and Nikolay Tychina.
At the age of fourteen, Anatoly received a diploma at the agricultural exhibition in Šiauliai, Lithuania. During the period from 1915 till 1917, Tychina studied at Konstantin Savitsky Art School in Penza. Later, he continued his education at Vrubel Art School in Omsk from 1918 till 1920.
From 1915 till 1921, during his student years, Anatoly served as a railroad worker. In 1919, he took part in the exhibition of the Society of Artists and Art Lovers of the Steppe Territory in Omsk.
In 1922, Tychina was appointed an artist in the administration of Belarusian Railway in Minsk, a post he held till 1924. Also, during the period from 1923 till 1925, Anatoly taught drawing classes in Minsk.
In the mid-1920's, Anatoly started to collaborate with Belarusian State Publishing House, as well as Belarusian newspapers and magazines, working as an illustrator. Those magazines and newspapers included "Maladniak", "Nash Krai" (Our land), "Bielaruski pijanier" (Belarusian pioneer), "Čyrvonaja Bielaruś" and others.
During the period from 1927 till 1932, Tychina took part in the exhibition, the aim of which was to collect samples of folk art. In 1933, the artist accompanied Belarusian poet and writer Yanka Kupala on a trip to Polesie in order to prepare illustrations for the poem "Over the Oressa River".
Between the years 1938-1941, the artist took part in organization and decoration of Belarusian pavilion at the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition in Moscow. When the Great Patriotic War began, Tychina continued to depict the urban landscape and illustrate Belarusian fairy tales.
In 1956, Anatoly designed Belarusian pavilion for the exhibition, dedicated to public education — the XIX International Conference in Geneva. During the period from 1961-1980, he worked in the graphics section of the Belarusian Union of Artists, the Ministry of Culture of the BSSR.
In 1935, Anatoly married Zinaida Semjonovna Tychina. The following year, in 1936, the couple gave birth to their daughter, Alla.