Veniamin Belkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Veniamin Belkin

Russian artist

Date of Birth: 26-Jan-1884

Place of Birth: Verkhoturye, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 08-Nov-1951

Profession: painter

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Veniamin Pavlovich Belkin (Russian: ???????? ???????? ??????, January 26, 1884, Verkhoturye, Perm Governorate — November 8, 1951, Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg) was a Russian artist and painter.
He made a lot of book artwork and was presented at various exhibitions from 1906, both in the former Soviet Union (Moscow, Leningrad) and abroad (Paris, New York, Boston). Among Belkin's notable scores are those for The Decameron, The Three Musketeers, A Hero of Our Time and The Knight in the Panther's Skin.
He also worked for famous publishing house Academia.
Belkin was a close friend of Alexey Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova.