Vasily Nikolaevich Chekrygin (Russian: Василий Никoлаeвич Чeкpыгин; January 19, 1897, Zhizdra, Kaluga Oblast - June 3, 1922, the station Mamontovka, Moscow region) was a Soviet painter, graphic artist.
He spent his childhood in Kiev. He studied at the school of icon painting at the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra and urban school (course of 6 years). At thirteen he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.[1]
The first illustrated and printed in lithography poetry of Mayakovsky.[2]
Creative and the life of the artist broke very early. At the age of twenty-five years Chekrygin died after being hit by a train.[1]
