Zamyrailo, Viktor

Zamyrailo, Viktor [Замирайло, Віктор; Zamyrajlo], b 23 November 1868 in Cherkasy, d 2 September 1939 in Petrodvorets, Leningrad oblast, RSFSR. Graphic artist and theatrical scenery designer. He studied at the Kyiv Drawing School (1881–4) and under Mikhail Vrubel in Kyiv. He took part in painting the murals in Saint Volodymyr's Cathedral in Kyiv (1885–90). In 1897 he began designing Russian posters and books, including editions of Nikolai Gogol’s works (1913), Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels in Russian (1918), and Aleksandr Blok’s Dvenadtsat (Twelve, 1924). Later he turned to designing theatrical scenery. In the Soviet period he served as a professor at the Higher State Artistic and Technical Institute in Leningrad (1925–9).

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 5 (1993).]