(b Cherkasy, Kiev province, 24 Nov 1868; d Novy Petergof, Leningrad Region, 2 Oct 1939). Ukrainian painter, printmaker and illustrator. He studied at the Kiev Drawing School (1881–6) under Mykhailo Murashko (1844–1909), who encouraged the independent development of his talents and taste without the pedantry of academicism or of the Wanderers. The influence of Gustave Doré is evident in his work of this period. From 1888 he participated in the exhibitions of the World of Art group, the Moscow Fellowship of Artists and the Union of Russian Artists. In Kiev he worked with Mikhail Vrubel’ on the restoration of the wall paintings in the church of St Cyril (1883–4) and on the decoration of the cathedral of St Vladimir (1885–90; initially on the basis of designs by Viktor Vasnetsov). In 1907–14 he produced the panels Battle at Kerzhenets and Subjugation of Kazan’ for the Kazan’ Station in Moscow to designs by Nicholas Roerich. In his easel works he used predominantly sepia, occasionally adding touches of watercolour, and he made extensive use of lamp-black. In 1908 he began the fantastic, almost Surrealist, cycle Capricci, which he continued to work on until 1918 (e.g. Temptations, watercolour; St Petersburg, Rus. Mus.; and Capricci, linocut; 1919). Zamiraylo also worked on book design and illustration and was one of the illustrators of the three-volume Zhivoye slovo (‘Living word’); these illustrations use parallel lines made with a sharp pen, the white ground contrasting with the saturated use of India ink or covered with a transparent wash of lamp-black in various tones. He also illustrated Aleksandr Blok’s poem Dvenadtsat’ (‘The twelve’; Petrograd, 1918) and the collected works of Nikolay Gogol’, among others. In addition, he contributed to satirical periodicals and painted the sets for productions of Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and Molière’s Le Mariage forcé (Rus. Brak ponevole) to designs by Alexandre Benois and Nicholas Roerich at the Moscow Art Theatre, 1907. He taught at the Leningrad (now St Petersburg) Art Institute of Photography and Photomechanics (1918–28) and at the Leningrad Vkhutein (1925–8).

• Zamyraylo, Viktor (Dmytriyevych)
  • Gollerbakh, Erikh