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Born in Minsk in 1909, Filippovskii began working at the eminent publishing house Academia in the 1930s. He created illustrations for editions of Balzac, Dickens, Babel and Pasternak; when the Soviet government closed the press in 1938, Filippovskii, like other creative talents, received a stint in the Gulag. He survived those years in camp, partly as a result of rewards of food received in return for drawings. This album of his paintings and graphic art of the 1930s to the 1960s reveals a strong figurative tradition abiding in Soviet art during the middle years of the twentieth century. -- Summary written by John W. Emerich, Bronze Horseman Literary Agency.