Background
Vladimir Svetalsky was born on February 26, 1904 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. He was the only son in the family. The family had an apartment and maid in the capital, own a summer cottage in Finland, but his father was a tyrant. Svitalski had Polish roots, the grandfather of a future grandson-graph served his sentence in the Russian Empire for his participation in the national liberation uprising of 1863. The father set out to raise his son bourgeois honest and hardened to the test.
Education
Vladimir Svetalsky studied at the Tenishevsky College (Saint Petersburg, 1916-1917). Since November 1918 lived in Moscow. In the 2nd half of 1920 he attended Printing workshops of the engraver I.N. Pavlova. In the years 1921-1923 engaged in the Higher State Artistic and Technical workshops.
Career
In the summer of 1922 Vladimir Svetalsky stayed in the city of Voronezh with his paternal uncle. In the summer of 1929 together with M.M. Melentyev traveled to the city of Ostrogozhsk, Central Chernozem region. In May 1930 Vladimir Svetalsky was unreasonably repressed, until 1933 he was serving a term of forced labor camps (the city of Kem, Karelia). Since December 1934 to March 1936 he lived in the village of Bear Mountain (Karelia).
The author of illustrations for the works of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin,Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov, Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, Dmitry Nerkisovich Mamin-Sibiryak, William Shakespeare and other writers.
