140×215 (60×90/16), paperback, ill., 176 pp., 2003
ISBN 5-86793-238-9

This book by the well-known art critic and art historian Galina Yelshevskaya explores the work of early twentieth-century artist Konstantin Somov. Although Somov is firmly associated with the modernist group Mir Iskusstva (World of Art), in her new book Yelshevskaya views his work from a different perspective, examining his innovative approach within the wider context of European artistic experiments in the first half of the twentieth century. Yelshevskaya also explores in depth Somov’s later émigré work, hitherto virtually unresearched.

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