Memoirs of the famous master of book illustration Anatoly Zinovievich Itkin are, first of all, memories of people - his contemporaries. This artist’s passion is inexhaustible, because it is precisely this that helps him illustrate books, from world fairy tales to Russian and foreign classics. Anatoly Itkin talks about childhood, youth, artistic formation and development, about almost all periods of his life and creativity. The book also includes his memories of the war, evacuation, and numerous trips around the country. Stories about yourself, and about your friends, teachers and mentors are invaluable evidence of the lives of people of that time. In the offered memoirs you will see photographs from the artist’s family album, his sketches made during his travels, portraits, genre scenes, book illustrations, lithographs and sketches.