Yevgeny Drobyazin is a graphic artist, a calligrapher, and a painter.
Born in July 10, 1948 in Sevastopol, Crimea.
In 1974 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Graphic Arts, Typography Department.
As a graphic artist he worked with: the Progress, Science, Imaginative Literature, Soviet Writer, Soviet Russia publishing houses. He was also a designer of books of classical literature, Soviet novels and poetry. Yevgeny Drobyazin: thoroughly studied Russian archaic scripts from the 15th -19th centuries (uncial, half-uncial Cyrillic book-hand, cursive); participated in many exhibitions of Moscow Book Artists Society and Art of Lettering exhibitions in the former USSR and other countries; was a member of Moscow City Committee of Graphic Artists and a teacher at refresher courses there.
Yevgeny possesses an extremely multifaceted creative nature. His colleagues highly appreciate his painting. The publication of his own poems, composed in classical Russian poetical style, became a real surprise for the whole world of art.
Nowadays Yevgeny Drobyazin works as a freelance artist.
“Calligraphy is a high art, bit it is at the same time a “Cinderella” in the monfokon pantheon of paleography. Poor thing, it is doomed to fight with the centuries-old dust on the centuries-old heap of manuscripts with a forlorn hope to get the masterpieces of true taste and aristocracy”.