Olga and Galina Chichagova

Their father, Dmitrii Chichagov [ru], designed the historic Moscow City Hall building on Red Square, among others, and their paternal grandfather, Nikolai Chichagov [ru], designed the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and Grand Kremlin Palace in Moscow.

In 1920, they continued their education in the famous Higher Art and Technical Studios Vkhutemas, which was home to a number of well-known artists in the Constructivist school.

(From a 1926 Russian periodical on recent children's books,[4] as cited in the memoirs of Nina Simonovich-Efimova.

[5])Later critics have also noted Chichagovas's celebration of industrial objects, even at the expense of figures recognizable in the popular culture of the time: for example, in Charlie's Travels, rather than take advantage of the beloved and easily recognizable figure of Charlie Chaplin, they instead chose to foreground his various means of transportation.

These later critics have also identified a change in the Chichagova's style: Returning again to their beloved theme of transportation in the 1929 albom Let's Go (Russian: Поедем), the artists avoid their previous schematicism: machines become three-dimensional, and the people sitting in them cease to be mere symbols; the illustrators are interested not only in the general outlines of objects, but also in the details of their construction.