Alexander Nikolaevich Samokhvalov (1894-1971) - Soviet artist, painter, graphic artist, applied artist, monumentalist. Samokhvalov entered an independent creative path at a time when modernist-avant-garde searches gradually went into the sphere of "quiet art" or generally into the "underground." The artist especially succeeded in the images of "heroines of labor and sports." He also successfully performed as a theater artist and especially books. Artistic children's books are noteworthy, including those with the texts of the master himself (Our City, 1927; and others), but first of all - a cycle of tragically grotesque, fully expressionist lithographs to the History of one city M.E. Saltykov-Shchedrin (1935).