Olga GrablevskayaOlga Grablevskaya is a Russian graphic artist, a graduate of the Book Graphics Department of the Repin Institute in Saint Petersburg. The main focus of her work is book and easel graphics.
Olga is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia and has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions both in Russia and abroad. In 2001, she became a laureate of the International Cartoonists Competition in Turkey, and in 2013, she won the All-Russian “Lermontov 2014” contest. In 2014, the Pyatigorsk publishing house SNEG released a gift two-volume edition of the poet with 150 full-color illustrations created by her. For many years, she has collaborated with the children’s magazine Kostyor, continuing to create graphics that combine artistic expressiveness with literary content.
She has illustrated over 150 publications, including gift editions of works by L. N. Tolstoy, O. Wilde, O. Mandelstam, A. Averchenko, Teffi, Ilf and Petrov. Olga’s book illustrations are distinguished by a light yet expressive style and careful attention to character. And here is how the artist interpreted the novel The Master and Margarita:
First — a portrait of the author
Woland in the guise of Mephistopheles, his main prototype
Pontius Pilate
The wandering philosopher and the Roman centurion
A swallow that flew under the colonnade
Pontius Pilate and Joseph Caiaphas
Pilate pronounced the verdict
Woland’s gang at Patriarch's Ponds
The restaurant director — pirate Archibald Archibaldovich
Ivan Homeless
Stepan Likhodeev ended up in Yalta
But Ivan Homeless — in the sanatorium
Suddenly, the poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. And that’s not all — more artists will appear later
(Poems in the picture:
“Hey, manager, official, poet!
To bribes say NO — and show it!”)
Money rain at the Varieté
Where there is a money rain, there is also a ladies’ shop
The Master appears, with Woland’s shadow hovering over him
The Master and Margarita notice each other in the crowd
Now the promised artists: Marc Chagall. I don’t quite understand what he is doing here, but the illustrator knows best
Back to the flow of the novel: Hella in the guise of Marilyn Monroe visits the Rimsky
The Way of the Cross
Matthew Levi threatens the sky
Again the artists: now Salvador Dalí. And the empty suit from Chapter Seventeen
Kazimir Malevich and the Black
CatSquare
Voland’s gang misbehaves
Azazello and Margarita in Alexander Garden
Waiting for the ball. Now Picasso
What is Maleficent doing at the ball? Well, again — the illustrator knows best
Alright, Maleficent. But Fred Astaire?
"Hereby it is certified that the bearer of this, Nikolai Ivanovich, spent the aforementioned night at Satan’s ball..."
Afernians in hoods
Pilate suffers from insomnia
Judas and Niza
Well, it all led to this
Pilate reads Matthew Levi’s manuscript. He is displeased
Behemoth mischiefs
“Let’s burn this!”
Woland in his true form
Pilate on the mountain plateau (and again Salvador Dalí is invisibly present)
