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Love Story in Paintings: Wassily Kandinsky and Nina Andreevskaya
As remembered by Nina Kandinskaya, in the winter of 1915, at Epiphany, she and her friends tried to guess their destined betrothed. The girls went to the street and asked the name of the first man they met; Nina “got” the name Wassily. “The holiday was spoiled. The name did not suit me in any way, I dreamed of Georgiy, it was the most fashionable male name,” she recalled. However, very little…