Orest Vereyskiy was a Soviet painting and drawing artist who illustrated many books for the publishing houses “Detgiz” (Children’s Literature) and “Khudozhestvennaya Literatura” (Fiction), worked for the “Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda” newspaper during the war, cooperated with the “Kostyor” and “Smena” magazines, created paintings for the books of Paustovsky, Bunin, Hemingway, and other writers.
Orest Vereyskiy turned to the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don” by Mikhail Sholokhov in the early 1950s. In his book “Journey Encounters”, he reminisced,
Orest Vereyskiy turned to the novel “And Quiet Flows the Don” by Mikhail Sholokhov in the early 1950s. In his book “Journey Encounters”, he reminisced,