The Siberian period in the biography of the Soviet cartoonist M.M. Cheremnykh

Famous Soviet cartoonist Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh was born in 1890 in Tomsk in a large family of a retired colonel. After his father's death in 1892 Mikhail's mother had to raise her children alone. Mikhail Cheremnykh was enrolled in the Tomsk Men gymnasium, where he had been studying since 1900 to 1909. The Gymnasium became that part of the biography of an, where his personality, abilities and talents appeared for the first time. Since the primary grades he was the exemplary pupil with rather good progress. Already in childhood Mikhail liked to draw, although in spite of the expectations he got a "four grade" (good mark) for drawing in gymnasium. Soon after the graduating from gymnasium, in 1910 took place the artistic debut of the medical faculty student of the Tomsk Imperial University, Mikhail Cheremnykh, as the cartoonist. In the January issue of the journal "Sibirskaya nov'" his first caricature was printed. In the same year the disciple of the famous Wanderer's artist I.E. Repin, Semyon Markovich Prokhorov, was invited to Tomsk and became there a teacher of painting. Apparently, the meeting with this talented person, who gave Mikhail the first professional lessons of drawing, influenced to the Cheremnykh's decision to give up medicine and to go to Moscow to study painting in 1911. The fortune returned M. Cheremnykh in Siberia several times. In the spring of 1914 he along with other students of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture took part in the art exhibition in Tomsk. After the October Revolution Cheremnykh became one of the leading Soviet cartoonists, he also created the famous ROSTA windows. Since 1922 he productively worked in the "Krokodil" journal. During the Great Patriotic War M. Cheremnykh was back again in his native Siberian lands. As one of the authors of the TASS windows, in evacuation in Biysk he organized the poster studio, which began to produce agitation sheets and posters. Artist's political caricatures were of great interests, and his exhibitions were held in Barnaul and Novosibirsk. War time in Siberia encouraged Cheremnykh for creation of the artwork series about the everyday life of the far rear, which became the basis of his Moscow exhibition in 1957. Mikhail Mikhailovich Cheremnykh died in Moscow in 1962.

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