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Vladimir Grigorevich Suteev () (5 July 1903 – 10 March 1993) was a
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author, artist and animator who primarily wrote stories for children. He was among the founders of the Soviet animation industry. Suteev's books have been translated into 36 languages and published in countries such as
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Early years

Vladimir Suteev was born in Moscow into the family of Zinaida Vasilievna Suteeva and Grigory Osipovich Suteev (1879–1960), a prominent Russian physician,
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, one of the leading
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researches who served as the head of the venereology section at the Moscow Department of Healthcare during the
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days.''Irina Klueva, Nadezhda Lysova (2008)''
Works of Stepan Erzia in Saransk Museums
— Saransk: Mordovian State University, 291 pages, p. 37
A graduate of the
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, Grigory Suteev was also practicing painting and music, performing with concerts at the Assembly of the Nobility.Vladimir Suteev (1990). ''Who said "Meow"? (Artist telling about himself)'' article from the ''
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'' magazine № 6, pp. 60–64
All this influenced Vladimir, but it was Stepan Erzia, a close family friend who made the greatest impact on him. His mother posed for Erzia, and his father left many biographical notes about his friend that were published as a ''Sculpture Erza'' book after Suteev's death.''Viktor Eryomin (2016)''
Biographies of the Great Fairy Tale Writers
— Moscow: Osteon Fond, 531 pages
Even as a young man, Suteev's works were periodically published in the magazines ''Pioner'', '' Murzilka'', ''Druzhnye Rebyata'', and ''Iskorka'' and in the newspaper '' Pionerskaya Pravda''. He came to children's literature from cinema. In 1928 he graduated from the Faculty of Art of the Institute of Cinematography where he studied along with his brother Vyacheslav Suteev (1904–1993) and his cousin Dmitry Bogolepov (1903–1990), both of whom became prominent Soviet
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directors.


Career

While still a student, he made drawings for ''China in Flames'' (1925), one of the earliest Soviet cutout animated films made in support of the Chinese national liberation movement. Noted for a variety of styles contributed by various young animators, including Nikolai Khodataev, Yuri Merkulov,
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and the Brumberg sisters, it also became one of the world's first animated
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it ran over 50 minutes at the time.''Sergey Kapkov (2006)''. Encyclopedia of Domestic Animation, pp. 14–15, 621–623 Suteev made his director's debut with the first Soviet animated talkie ''Athwart Street'' (1931) and some other experimental works before joining the
Soyuzmultfilm Soyuzmultfilm ( rus, Союзмультфи́льм, p=səˌjʉsmʊlʲtˈfʲilʲm , ''Unioncartoon'') (also known as SMF Animation Studio in English, formerly known as Soyuzdetmultfilm, ''Unionchildcartoon'') is a Russian animation studio, produ ...
collective in 1936 where he took part in more than 30 films as a director, screenwriter and animator. Some of them (''Petya and Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Store'', etc.) were rewarded with international prizes. In 1941, before leaving for the frontline, Suteev completed his work on the cartoon ''Clatterfly'' (''Mukha-tsokotukha''), based on
Korney Chukovsky Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky ( rus, Корне́й Ива́нович Чуко́вский, p=kɐrˈnʲej ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ tɕʊˈkofskʲɪj, a=Kornyey Ivanovich Chukovskiy.ru.vorb.oga; 31 March NS 1882 – 28 October 1969) was one of the most p ...
's fairy tale. Suteev took part in the
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from the first days till the very end. He then returned to Soyuzmultfilm, but left it in just two years because of his
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towards Tatiana Taranovich, also an animator who joined Soyuzmultfilm in 1946. Their sad story was well-known inside the animation community. She was 13 years younger than Suteev, happily married with a daughter. According to Tatiana's granddaughter, Suteev wrote "hundreds of letters" to her, but she answered only twice. Nevertheless, 37 years later they finally married. By that time they were both widowers; Suteev turned 80, while Taranovich was 67. They lived together for 10 more years and both died in 1993. From 1947 he worked at the Detgiz Publishing House. In 1952 his first book was published by Detgiz, ''Two Tales about the Pencil and the Paints''. The book was welcomed by Chukovsky in a review in ''
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''. After that, Suteev published quite a number of books: ''What Kind of a Bird is This?'', ''Under the Mushroom'', ''The Bag of Apples'', ''The Chicken and the Duckling'', ''Who said "Meow"?'', ''The Helpful Stick'', and many others.Сказочник, который умел всё
Наталья Василькова о Сутееве
A lot of them were adapted as animated films. Vladimir Suteev had been illustrating the books of Russian literary classics: Korney Chukovsky's tales,
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's "Whiskers and stripes", "Uncle Stjopa" by Sergey Mikhalkov, "The merry summer" by Valentin Berestov. Illustrated with Suteev's drawings, the below-mentioned books were published in Russia for the first time:
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's "Cippolino's adventures" (Suteev's heroes of the fairy-tale have become specimens for toys), the Norwegian writer
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's "Happy New Year", the English writer Lilian Moore "Little raccoon and the Thing in the pool". Suteev's Pif-puppy has become a favorite of children throughout the world ("The Adventures of Pif", retold from French).


See also

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History of Russian animation The history of Russian animation is the visual art form produced by Russian animation makers. As most of Russia's production of animation for cinema and television were created during Soviet times, it may also be referred to some extent as the his ...


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