Nikolai Bukharin - Cartoonist

Cartoonist

Nikolai Bukharin was a gifted cartoonist who left many cartoons on contemporary Soviet politicians. The renowned artist Konstantin Yuon once told him: “Forget about politics. There is no future in politics for you. Painting is your real calling." His cartoons are sometimes used to illustrate biographies of Soviet officials. Russian historian Yury Zhukov stated that Nikolai Bukarin's portraits of Joseph Stalin were the only ones drawn from the original, not from a photograph.

• Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, as the Sword of Revolution, 1925

• Grigory Zinoviev, 1926

• Vladimir Lenin, 1927

• Sergo Ordzhonikidze if he were younger and served in the tsarist Guard, 1927

• Aaron Soltz, 1927

• Joseph Stalin

• Joseph Stalin, 1929

• Mikhail Kalinin or "What you see is what you get", 1929

• Kliment Voroshilov