Orest Georgievich Vereisky (July 7 [20], 1915, Anosovo village, Smolensk province - January 2, 1993, Moscow) - Soviet graphic artist, illustrator, teacher. Academician of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1983; corresponding member 1958). People's Artist of the USSR (1983). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1978). Orest Vereisky was born in the family of the artist Georgy Vereisky and Elena Vereiskaya, daughter of the historian N.I. Kareev. Until 1922 he lived in the village of Anosovo, now Novoduginsky district, Smolensk region.
In 1936-1938 he was a volunteer at the I.E. Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. It is in Leningrad that the creative formation of Vereisky as an artist takes place. Here, his mentor, in addition to his father, was the artist and teacher A. A. Osmerkin. In 1940, Vereisky moved to live and work in Moscow. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked at the editorial board of the Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda newspaper of the 3rd Belorussian Front, where he met and made friends with A. T. Tvardovsky. Full member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1983), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1958).
Vereisky is known for his book graphics. He illustrated the works of M. A. Sholokhov, K. G. Paustovsky, A. A. Fadeev, A. N. Rybakov, M. M. Prishvin, I. A. Bunin, E. Hemingway and other writers. Vereisky actively illustrated the works of A.T. Twardowski, including the poem about Vasily Turkin. His illustrations are known to the book of M.P. Prilezhaeva «The Life of Lenin».
A prominent place in the work of Vereisky was occupied by easel graphics. He owns a diverse series of drawings, watercolors, autolithographs, created as a result of his trips to Czechoslovakia, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt (all in 1955), Finland (1957), Iceland (1958), the USA (1960 and 1963) )
O. G. Vereisky died on January 2, 1993. He was buried in Moscow at the Kuntsevsky cemetery.
