Leonid Stroganov

Leonid Stroganov is a contemporary Russian graphic artist, master of small forms and bookplates. He was born in 1979 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the St. Petersburg Art School named after N.K. Roerich in 1999, and later from the Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts, Design, and Humanities in 2002. His artistic development was shaped under the guidance of renowned artist Oleg Yakhnin, whom he considers his mentor.
Since 2002, Leonid has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. That same year, he began his professional career as a freelance artist, book illustrator, and participant in numerous art exhibitions and performances. In 2006, he completed a residency at the Tamarind Institute (USA), specializing in lithography.
Stroganov’s artistic interests include easel graphics, painting, illustration, and ex libris. He is an active participant in the international congresses of FISAE — the International Federation of Ex Libris Societies. He favors working in etching, lithography, and watercolor techniques.
He is best known for his illustrations of classic literary works — King Lear by William Shakespeare, the Sonnets by Francesco Petrarch, the poem The Gardens by Jacques Delille, and texts by Abram Efros. His illustrations for King Lear were the focus of his graduation project and earned him professional recognition.
Leonid Stroganov has participated in over 70 exhibitions across Russia, the European Union, the USA, Japan, China, and Mongolia. His works are held in prestigious collections including the Hermitage Library, the Russian National Library, the St. Petersburg Public Library, and literary museums dedicated to F.M. Dostoevsky and A.S. Pushkin. His works are also part of collections in the Vologda Regional Art Gallery, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, and museums in Oryol, Sakhalin, Chuvashia, and Stary Oskol.
Internationally, his works are found in the Austrian National Library (Vienna), the Malbork Castle Museum (Poland), the Museum of Small Print Graphics in Sint-Niklaas (Belgium), the Museum of Art in Frederikshavn (Denmark), as well as the Tamarind Institute and the Boston Public Library (USA). His exclusive ex libris prints are highly valued by collectors around the world.