Tatyana Sazonova: biography, creativity, career, personal life

Tatyana Sazonova - Soviet cartoon artist, animator and illustrator of children's books. With its help, cartoons were created such as the legendary Thumbelina, Cat's House, Dragonfly and Ant, etc.

Tatyana Panteleimonovna Sazonova was born on December 29, 1929 in the city of Moscow. Over her life, she has become the production designer of 28 animated films and the animated animator of Chintsevaya Street and Dragonflies and the Ant. In addition, Tatyana Sazonova created illustrations for many of her favorite books for children.

Biography

Tatyana Sazonova received her artistic education at the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK). Graduation year - 1951.

The period from 1952 to 1960 - the beginning of Tatyana's career as an assistant to the artist of the director. Then in 1961 she became a production designer at the famous Soviet film studio Soyuzmultfilm.

Sazonova was engaged in hand-drawn animations paired with Nadezhda Privalova with the director and honored art worker of the RSFSR Leonid Amalrik and the famous Soviet cartoon director Yuri Prytkov.

She made her film debut in 1958, as an artist, in the family short film "Cat's House".

In 1969, Sazonova took part in the creation of the series “Well, wait a minute!”, Loved by all viewers, as an editor.

The famous artist died on November 11, 2011, in Moscow, at the 85th year of her life.

Tatyana Sazonova’s contribution to the Soviet animated legacy is enormous. More than one generation of Soviet and Russian television viewers has grown on the cartoons created with its help. In 2011, an exhibition was held for the 75th anniversary of the Soyuzmultfilm movie studio. Library of cinema to them. S. M. Eisenstein presented an exhibition of sketches, dolls, mock-ups, photographs, posters "UNION-MULT-MASTERPIECES". Works were presented not only by the famous Tatyana Sazonova, but also by such famous artists as Anatoly Sazonov, Sergey Alimov, Leonid Shvartsman, Anatoly Petrov, Leonid Nosyrev and others.

Tatyana Panteleimonovna’s creativity can be found not only on the television screen, but also on the pages of Soviet children's books as vivid illustrations for all fairy tales loved by her.

Personal life

Tatyana Sazonova’s family was creative. Father, Panteleimon Petrovich Sazonov - a famous director and artist of Soviet animated films. He took part in the creation of such cartoons as "The Tale of the Priest and his Workman Balda", "The Tale of Emelya" and others. Mother, Lidia Vitoldovna Sazonova - Assistant Director for Installation. For a while, she also worked on the radio.

The elder brother of Tatyana Sazonova, Anatoly - teacher, animated film artist and honored artist of the RSFSR. He took part in the creation of such animated films as The Stolen Sun, Twelve Months, etc.

She married the famous director and artist Yuri Prytkov, with whom they together created many animated masterpieces.

The daughter of Tatyana and Yuri, Ksenia Prytkova, followed in the footsteps of her parents and also became an equally famous animated film artist.