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View of the Cluny Museum in Paris 1908 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Jardin du Luxembourg 1908

Self-portrait 1912

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin (1878 - 1939) was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer. He was also an excellent semi-professional violinistPetrov-Vodkin stayed in Saint Petersburg from 1895 to 1897 studying at the Baron Stieglits School, before moving to the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. There Petrov-Vodkin was a student of Valentin Serov, Isaak Levitan and especially Konstantin Korovin. In 1901 he travelled to Munich to take classes with Anton Ažbe. He graduated in 1904 From 1924 to 1926 Petrov-Vodkin lived in France with his family. In 1922 he painted a portrait of the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova During his earlier years he developed his "spherical perspective": a unique twist that distorted the drawing as to represent the viewer high enough to actually notice the spherical curve of the globe. He used it extensively through his works like Death of a Commissar and In the Line of Fire, which make the observer seem more distant, but actually close. It is argued that this twist has been built upon Byzantine perspective - an inverted perspective used in iconography

Portrait of Anna Akhmatova 1922 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Lena in the bed 1926 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Fektya 1916

Portrait of AP Petrova-Vodkin, the artist's mother 1909 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Old women 1909

Mikula Selyaninovich 1918

Stepan Razin 1918

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Still life with an ashtray 1920

Still Life1920

Still life Apples and eggs

1921

Still life with letters 1925

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Portrait of S.N. Andronikov 1925 State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Portrait of V.I. Lenin 1934 National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

Still life Fruit 1934 Simferopol Art Museum

Still life with apples 1912

View of Samarkand 1921 State Russian Museum,

St. Petersburg

Samarkand 1926

SamarkandOn the terrace

1921

Samarkand. Ruhabad. 1921 Estonian Art Museum, Tallinn

The port in Dieppe

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Gallery, Moscow

The city of Constantine. Algeria. 1907 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Surroundings of KhvalynskAround 1909 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Portrait of Madame Bodin 1924

Workers 1926 State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

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Woman's head 1912 Etude State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Still lifeBouquet of flowers and a lamp 1937

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Still life. Grapes and apples. 1921 National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan

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Sound: The legend of the twelve robbers – Alexandrov Ensemble; Orthodox Russian choir 2017