Evgeny Berezikov — artist and multifaceted individual

Dear website visitors, you have a unique opportunity to get to know an extraordinary man with a range of remarkable abilities — a Russian citizen, Evgeny Berezikov, who came into this world on August 30, 1935.
He was born in a forester's lodge in the remote Siberian taiga of the Tyumen region. His childhood was marked by the hardships of war: during evacuation to Central Asia, the train he was on was bombed, and like many other children, he was sent to an orphanage. He became a homeless waif, went hungry, and wandered through the cities of the Soviet Union in search of his mother, who had gone missing during that same bombing. He worked as a laborer, took on odd jobs, but eagerly absorbed any knowledge that came his way and devoured books from village libraries. He trained as an excavator driver, enrolled in an evening school, and served in the army, where he became a Master Tank Driver.
His strong will and determination allowed Evgeny Berezikov, in his younger years, to earn two specialized secondary degrees, as well as two higher education degrees and a Candidate of Juridical Sciences (PhD equivalent). In his mature years, his organizational talent enabled him to become the head of the city of Shahrisabz in the Uzbek SSR, and later one of the leaders of the Samarkand region of Uzbekistan.
The East became his destiny. He came to know the customs and rituals of the local peoples well, communicating fluently in Uzbek, Kazakh, and Korean with the local population. Then, after some time, Evgeny Berezikov developed a strong desire to understand the history, life, and ways of the peoples of other countries. He became a passionate traveler, and between 1969 and 2025, he traveled to forty foreign countries and visited all six continents, as well as the North and South Poles of the Earth.
Everything he saw, felt, and was captivated by during his travels, he began to express both in written literary form and in his paintings. Over more than fifty years of his creative life, he wrote and published a number of novellas, novels, and historical travel essays — 45 books in total, published in various languages of the peoples of the Soviet Union and in foreign languages, with a total circulation exceeding 1.5 million copies.
A special feature of Evgeny Berezikov's multifaceted talent is his unique work as a painter, which has no parallel in world art — vibrant, multi-colored canvases created by his brush based on visions from the Cosmos. These paintings are unique and mysterious, for they look not only deeply into the Cosmos, but also into the deep labyrinths of the brain and soul of earthly man.
In total, Evgeny Berezikov painted about a thousand works during his creative career. Solo exhibitions of his paintings have been held in several Russian cities and abroad, everywhere evoking admiration, interest, and glowing reviews from viewers.
**In 1985, the Uzbekfilm studio adapted Evgeny Berezikov's novella "Don't Fear the Cobra" into a two-part feature film, "The Long Echo in the Mountains."*
Evgeny Berezikov is also the lyricist of popular songs performed by the ensemble Yalla, such as "Shahrisabz," "Musical Teahouse," "The Blue Domes of Samarkand," and others. A musical symphony by composer Ilgam Bayteryak — one of the few living people to receive such an honor — has been dedicated to him and performed by the State Symphony Orchestra of the Republic of Tatarstan.
He is the author of 49 literary works (fiction, journalism, esoteric, and spiritual), with a total circulation of 1.5 million copies. In 2024, he completed Part 2 of his artistic and historical work on Tamerlane, and issued Parts 1 and 2 of the novel as a single book. The Moscow branch of the Union of Writers of Russia recognized the chronicle novel "The Great Timur" as the best book of 2024.
Look and familiarize yourself with his work — you as well!