Valery Carrick

Valery Carrick, born Valerian Viliamovich Karrik (1869–1943), was a Russian illustrator and caricaturist of Scottish descent, born in St. Petersburg, where his father was a well-known photographer. He worked as a political cartoonist for Russian newspapers and magazines, and became known abroad for his picture books of Russian animal tales and folk stories, simple in style and full of humor, which were translated into English by Nevill Forbes and others as Picture Tales from the Russian and More Russian Picture Tales. After the Russian Revolution he settled in Norway, where he died.