Jewelry stone carving art by Anatoly Zhukov
Among contemporary genres in jewelry and lapidary art stone sculpture depicting busts of historical figures are rare. Such art requires the accuracy and detail of the exterior of a human immortalized in stone. Renowned Yekaterinburg master Anatoly Ivanovich Zhukov has created the series of historical busts in this “rare” stone-cutting art genre.
Yekaterinburg artist stone-cutter, Zhukov is a master of stone-cutting and art restorer of the highest category. He is an Honored lapidary artist, Commander of the Order of AK Denisov-Uralsky, and a member of the Russian Artists’ Union (1995).
The master’s works are kept in museums in Moscow (Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art) and St. Petersburg (Hermitage). In addition, museums in Tyumen, Chelyabinsk, Miass, Orenburg, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Sergiev Posad, Kemerovo, Khanty-Mansiysk, Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk region. Also, foreign collections (state and private), as well as private collections in Russia’s cultural elite, including Vladimir Putin, and Dmitry Medvedev.

Born in 1956 in Kamensk-Uralsky, Anatoly Zhukov graduated from the Sverdlovsk Architectural Institute, faculty of “Industrial Arts” in 1982.
His creations are very diverse and cover a large number of directions and genres in the art of stone cutting. In short, he is a kind of encyclopedia of stone carving, both in practical and theoretical part. Zhukov works in all directions, including animal figures, floristry, busts, cabinet items, vases, and pedestals. Engaged in restoration, he works alone, occasionally resorting to the help of jewelers.

Jewelry stone carving art by Anatoly Zhukov

Anatoly travels a lot (China, Germany, Thailand, Egypt and other countries), which allows the artist to take the best of the art world, and to recognize the place of the Ural stone-cutters in the world cultural space.

Restorer of the highest category, Zhukov participated in the attribution of human figures of Faberge and restoration of objects from the collection of the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve. He is the founder of the new directions: the cinema (the film “White Sun of the Desert”), literary compositions “Chekhoviana” to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Chekhov’s birth: “Vanka Zhukov,” “Malice,” and “Chameleon” (2010).

Jewelry stone carving art by Anatoly Zhukov