Kirill Konstantinovich Sokolov (Кирилл Константинович Соколов, 27 September 1930 – 22 May 2004) was a Russian artist who worked in a range of media and form, from book illustration and silk-screen printing to oil painting, collage and sculpture.
[2] In 1960 he met his future wife, Avril Pyman, a British research student and biographer of Alexander Blok.
For the next ten years he gained distinction as a highly original engraver and illustrator of some fifty books, including the works of Mikhail Bulgakov and Yuri Trifonov.
[1] During his career, Sokolov developed his own method of printmaking, which he called "silkscreen collage".
Using this technique he created dozens of folios on themes such as "London 1984" (just as much a tribute to Dore's "London a Pilgrimage" as to a reflection on British society after Orwell), "Big Meeting" (a reflection on the Durham Miners' Gala), "Chester-le-Street Parish Church" (a series celebrating the 1100th anniversary of the Parish Church of St. Mary & St. Cuthbert) and many others.