Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov

Alexei Alexandrowitsch Radakow ( Russian Алексей Александрович Радаков ; * 1877 in Vyatka , † 1942 in Tbilisi ) was a Soviet cartoonist .

Radakov's Rosta Window : Knowledge breaks the chains of slavery.

Rosta window by Radakow: The uneducated is like a blind man. Misfortune and failure await him everywhere .

After training at the Moscow Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the 1890s, he graduated from the Baron Stieglitz Central School for Technical Drawing in St. Petersburg in 1905 . Until the Russian Civil War he worked as an author and co-editor of the magazine Nowi Satirikon . During this time he made several trips, including to Paris , London , Madrid and Berlin , where he worked in the studio of Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen and Jean-Louis Forain and exhibited his own works. During the time of the civil war, he created several posters and got involved with the revolutionary news agency (ROSTA) on the Rosta Windows in Petrograd . After the victory of the Bolsheviks , he worked for magazines such as Lapot , Begemot , Bitsch , Smechatsch , Besboshnik and Krokodil until 1929 . During the Second World War he worked for the TASS Windows , these propaganda posters issued by the telegraph agency of the Soviet Union during the war had to be completed within 24 hours with reference to current events. Alexei Alexandrovich Radakov died in Tbilisi in 1942 .

Web links

Commons : Aleksey Radakov - collection of images, videos and audio files

Aleksey Radakov, "The Illiterate and the Literature". Poster, Petrograd 1920. , In: 1000Dokumente.de, 100 (0) key documents on Russian and Soviet history , accessed on April 22, 2018.

personal data
SURNAME	Radakov, Alexei Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Радаков, Алексей Александрович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Russian cartoonist
DATE OF BIRTH	1877
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vyatka
DATE OF DEATH	1942
Place of death	Tbilisi