During the first decade of the new century , Benois continued to edit '' Mir iskusstva '' , but also pursued his scholarly and artistic interests . He wrote and published several monographs on 19th-century Russian art and Tsarskoye Selo . In 1903 , Benois printed his illustrations to Pushkin 's poem '' The Bronze Horseman '' , a work since recognized as one of the landmarks in the genre . In 1904 , he published his “ Alphabet in Pictures , ” at once a children ’s primer and elaborate art book , copies of which fetch as much as $ 10,000 US at auction . Illustrations from this volume were featured at a video presentation during the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Sochi in 2014
opening ceremony
2014 Winter Olympics opening ceremony
Alexandre Benois