Mary Tolstova is an illustrator from Moscow, works on a variety of social topics such as domestic violence, torture in prisons, LGBT rights, freedom of speech, human rights violations, migrants, environmental issues and many other things. She has worked as an illustrator for different russian media such as Meduza, Esquire, Coda Story, Memorial Human Rights Center, 7x7, Batenka, InStyle, Interview, and others. She has been working as an illustrator in Mediazona since 2015.