Artist Biographies

The following are biographies of artists from the Tsarist, Communist, or post-Communist space. Here we discuss the lives they led, the works they created, and what they meant to the cultures they lived in.

February 21, 2016

Alyona Dergilyova, My Moscow (Cityscape in Watercolors)

I was born in an old one-story merchant’s house in the Taganka District of Moscow. Our house stood on the corner of Vorontsovskaya Street, which then had a tram track, and Mayakovsky Pereulok. At one time, Vladimir Mayakovsky lived at the end of that pereulok, and my grandmother used to tell me how more than […]