Songs of Girlfriends

Borys Mykolaiovych Yermolaiev was a Soviet artist. Born in St. Petersburg in 1903, he studied from 1921 to 1925 at the Petrograd Art and Industrial College under M. Avilov, A. Rylov, and V. Fedorovych, and at the Leningrad Higher Art and Technical Institute (1925-1928). Yermolaiev participated in exhibitions starting in 1928. He was a member of the "Commune of Artists" society from 1923 to 1929 and the "Guild of Artists" from 1927 to 1932. Best known as an illustrator and engraver, Yermolaiev also painted portraits and genre compositions. Since the 1940s, he worked in the Experimental Lithographic Workshop of the Leningrad Department of Agriculture, creating his own original decorative and plastic system of color lithography. He lived and worked in Leningrad, and died in Leningrad in 1982.