Nadya Rusheva

She began to paint every day, and once drew 36 illustrations of “The Tale of Tsar Saltan” in a single evening while her father read the story to her.

Rusheva reportedly made no preparatory drawings or sketches, nor even erased much.

I first see them... they appear on paper as watermarks, and I need to do something to lead around them...” She brought her characters to life in clean, flowing lines.

Yelena Bulgakova later said, “I wish I knew this amazing and subtle creature, Nadya Rusheva.

She died from a brain haemorrhage resulting from a congenital defect of the cerebral arteries on 6 March 1969.