A young artist from Russia Ilya left behind dozens of beautiful paintings and graphic work, hundreds of studies and sketches. Ilya Filatov died last year when he was only thirteen years old. In his short life he had already become a well known artist in his country.
Most children like to paint and to draw pictures.
One child who felt this early vocation was Ilya Filatow. He started off drawing pictures just the way other children usually do, but very quickly his parents noticed that their son had an exceptional talent. That was in 1994, when his little sister was born. Ilya started to attended the classes of Anatoly Chernov, a renowned Moscow sculptor. He took part in many art projects, exhibitions and children's drawing competitions.