Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, Russian painter and author (born 1878)

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Russian painter

Kuzma Sergeyevich Petrov-Vodkin, was a Russian and Soviet painter. His early iconographic work used special creative effects based on the curve of the globe, but its images were considered blasphemous by the Russian Orthodox Church. However he went on to become the first…