Vladimir Bekhteev

b. 1878 — d. 1971

Born April 15, 1878 in Moscow. He received his secondary education at the Moscow Real School. In 1898 he graduated from the Nikolaev Cavalry School, from where he was released as a cornet in the 42nd Dragoon Mitavsky Regiment. In 1901, he retired with the rank of lieutenant and went to Munich, where he studied drawing and painting with Knirr, then in Paris with Cormon. He was a co-founder in 1909 of the "New Munich Art Association" together with Wassily Kandinsky, Alexei Yavlensky, Marianna Veryovkina. He was close to the circle of the Blue Rider magazine, participated in the first exhibition of the Jack of Diamonds association, in the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. In 1920-1921. was an artist of the First State Circus in Moscow. He was engaged in book illustration, in 1936-1945 he created a series of illustrations for the works of Lermontov, designed a number of books of foreign classics of the 19th century for the Academia publishing house. Vladimir Bekhteev died on June 21, 1971 in his native city and was buried at the Donskoy cemetery.