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russian artist sergey tchekhonin -lrb- 1878-1936 -rrb- 23 february 1936 paris valdayka 220px russian sergey chekhonin graphics 2 february 1878 maxim gorky at the louvre sergey tchekhonin.jpg sergey chekhonin
 sergey vasil ` evich tchehonine #bcd 4e6
sergey chekhonin

sergey vasil ` evich tchehonine -lrb- chekhonin -rrb- -lrb- born in valdayka , novgorod province lykoshino , tver ' region , 2 february 1878 ; died on the way from germany to paris , 23 february 1936 -rrb- was a russian graphic artist , portrait miniaturist , ceramicist , and illustrator .
together with narbut and vasili mitrokhin , chekhonin belongs to the second generation of the `` world of art , '' the so-called artists who entered the union in the 1910s .
widely known as a graphics artist and creator of the so-called propaganda porcelain , he illustrated many soviet publications , and even managed to invent a completely original way of multi-color printing on fabric .
his works are in many museums of the ussr , and his artistic legacy is thoroughly diverse .
