Nadia Rusheva (1952-1969)

  
Nadia Rusheva, the daughter of a theater artist and a ballerina, lived in the legendary Tuva, died at the age of seventeen, and left behind thousands of graphic works. Her oeuvre contains illustrations to Ancient Greek myths, Pushkin, Bulgakov, Shakespeake, and Tolstoy; figures of ballerinas, animals, and magical creatures; and countless faces, from self-portraits to nameless female visages. Nadia's imagination and distinctive style were a subject of lasting fascination throughout the Soviet Union. I attended an exhibition of her work in Kiev when I was about thirteen. Right now, I'm looking at a 22-page album from that show; the flimsy cover features a boy centaur with a mop of curly hair.

Little Centaur

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