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Test article Pavel Orinyansky

Pavel Andreevich Orinyansky (Russian: Павел Андреевич Оринянский) was born on November 22, 1955 in the town Yampil (Ukrainian: Ямпіль; Russian: Ямполь) in the Vinnytsia Oblast in Ukraine. He is one of the most renowned illustrators of the novel The Master and Margarita by the Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov.

Education
Orinyansky started drawing at a very young age, under the influence of his grandmother, the artist Eugenia Belinskaya.

He did not pursue an artistic career from the beginning though: after having graduated from the Suvorov Military School in Kiev, Pavel Orinyansky enrolled at the Military Topographic School in Leningrad. After a while he realized that this was not his preferred direction, and he began to study at the Leningrad Academy of Arts and Industry, better known as Vera Mukhina Academy of Art and Design, where he graduated in 1979. During his studies, he became greatly impressed by the works of the English Art Nouveau illustrator Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (1872-1898), and the Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), who became his idol.

Career
In 1992, the publishing house Planeta released a first book with illustrations by Pavel Orinyansky with the title Lukomorye (The sea bay). As a result of this, he was asked to make the illustrations for an edition of the epic poem Ruslan and Lyudmila by the famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) in 1993.

Soon after that, the illustrations were used to publish a Pushkin Calendar.

In 1994, Orinyansky got his first solo exhibition called Mysticism in Graphics at the Museum of Western and Oriental Art in Odessa, Ukraine. The success of the exhibition was an incentive for the artist to make illustrations for the novel The Master and Margarita by Soviet writer Mikhail Afanasievich Bulgakov (1891-1940). It started with a modest set of 13 drawings, but grew into a collection of 40 illustrations that would include the whole story of the novel. With these drawings, Orinyansky’s reputation as an illustrator would be fully confirmed. In the Russian Federation, he is regarded as one of the leading illustrators of Bulgakov's masterpiece. The publishing house Panpress used them to release a deluxe edition of the novel and life-size pictures of the illustrations adorn the entrance of the Bulgakov House in Moscow.

Meanwhile Orinyansky also worked as an Art Director for Krasnov Design, the production house of the Russian designer, manufacturer and designer Boris Krasnov, for which he realized several theater and concert projects. He also worked on the design of furniture and decoration of buildings, gardens and parks.

In 2004, Pavel Orinyansky founded his own design house Orin in Moscow, together with his brothers Vladimir and Andrey. The studio and its sculptors would quickly acquire fame through their achievements in the area of wall decoration, interior design, landscape architecture and furniture design.

Many buildings and gardens in and around Moscow have been designed or decorated by Orinyansky and his studio. One of the best known examples is the children's garden which was built at the Lenin People Farm in the south of Moscow.

In 2010, Pavel Orinyansky had been invited to contribute to the realisation of the the Russian pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China. The pavilion was visited by more than 7.5 million people, and was awarded the silver medal.

In 2014, the famous Russian design house Alexander's Collection asked Orinyansky to use his illustrations for The Master and Margarita for the making of making life-sized silk tapestries, which will be exhibited in Los Angeles, United States, and Malaga, Spain.

Literature

 * Bulgakov, Michail Afanasievich, The Master and Margarita. Illustrations by Pavel Orinyansky, Panpress, Moscow, 1999, 296 p., ISBN 978-5-9680-0050-7.
 * Orinyansky, Pavel, Lukomorye (The Sea Bay), Planeta, Moscow, 1992, 160 p.
 * Orinyansky, Pavel, Illustrations, Olma Press, Moscow, 2001, 160 p., ISBN 5-224-03303-9.
 * Pushkin, Aleksandr Sergeevich, Ruslan and Lyudmila. Poem with illustrations by Pavel Orinyansky, Igra Slov, Moscow, 2000, 212 p., ISBN 5-89709-004-1.