Favorsky was born on March 14, 1886, in
Moscow,
Russian Empire. His father, Andrei Evgrafovich Favorsky (1843–1926) was a prominent lawyer and member of the
Imperial Russian Duma (Parliament). Favorsky's mother, Olga Vladimirovna Sherwood, was of English-descent, being the daughter of architect
Vladimir Osipovich Sherwood, and sister of
Vladimir Vladimirovich Sherwood and
Leonid Sherwood. The chemist
Alexey Favorsky was his uncle. Among Favorsky's scores are the artwork for ''
The Tale of Igor's Campaign'',
Dante's
La Vita Nuova,
Shakespeare's
The Twelfth Night and
The Sonnets,
Pushkin's
Boris Godunov and , 1830, and
Anatole France's
Les Opinions de Jérôme Coignard. Favorsky died on December 29, 1964, and is buried at the
Novodevichy Cemetery. ==See also==