Dmitry Mitrohin
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Dmitry Isidorovich Mitrohin, also Mitrokhin (Russian: Дмитрий Исидорович Митрохин, born on May 15, 1883 in Yeysk, deceased on November 7, 1973 in Moscow) was a Russian artist, book illustrator and historian of art.
Biography
In 1902, Dmitry Mitrohin joined the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and transferred to the Stroganov Art School in 1904 to study book illustration. In 1905, he moved to Paris and attended drawing classes by Eugène Grasset and Théophile Steinlen. He returned to Russia in 1908, and settled in Saint Petersburgh between 1912 and 1914, illustrating children books and other Russian books such as Lukomorie.
From 1919 to 1923, Dmitry Mitrohin is a custodian in the drawings and engravings department of the Russian Museum. In 1919, he also started teaching at the Higher Photography Institute, and then at the Academy of Arts from 1924 to 1934. In 1944, he moved back to Moscow to do book illustration until the 1960s.