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Ilya Trofimovich Bogdesko (Russian: Илья́ Трофи́мович Богде́ско; April 20, 1923, Botushany near Rîbnița Ukrainian SSR - March 29, 2010, St. Petersburg, Russia) - Moldavian Soviet graphic artist, People's Painter of the USSR (1963), member of the Academy of Arts (1988).
Member of the Great Patriotic War.Drafted into the Red Army was in 1942.
One of the most famous works - illustrations for the novel by Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels in the technique of engraving on metal cutter, widespread in the days of Swift. For this work at the National competition Book Art in 1980 Bogdesko was awarded the diploma of Ivan Fedorov.
For about five years created a series of 33 illustrations for the Don Quixote Cervantes. In the book Pungutsa Doi Ku baths (Wallet with two coin) Ion Creanga wrote all the text by hand.