Illustrations

Sokolov earned his living as a book-illustrator until he left Russia aged forty-four. He also illustrated books for which he had no commissions (Gogol, early pastels to “Balaganchik” and Blok’s poetry, watercolours to Andrei Bely’s “Peterburg”, Hamlet) and continued to do so throughout his life (Goethe’s “Faust”, later Blok prints and silkscreens, lithographic for Platonov’s “The Foundation Pit”).