page_title: Anatoly Konenko
section_title: Microminiatures
hierarchical_section_title: Anatoly Konenko / Microminiatures
caption_attribution_description: Коненко Станислав Анатольевич
context_page_description: Anatoly Ivanovich Konenko is a microminiature painter and sculptor from the Russian city of Omsk. In 1996 he was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for creating the world's smallest book.
context_section_description: Konenko began to create miniature works in 1981. Konenko's works often reference Russian fables and fairy tales; some of his most famous creations include "The Savvy Flea", "The Grasshopper Violinist" and "A Caravan of Camels in the Eye of the Needle". Since 2007, his son has worked with him.
  Konenko works in a variety of media, using human hair, poppy seeds, and rice as surfaces. Some of his works include living animals. In 2011, he created a miniature aquarium to house a living tiny fish, complete with a net. It contained just two teaspoons of water, two fish, and some algae. He can shoe a flea.
caption: Grasshopper playing the violin.
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