Publications by tag: paris

Being a muse is a thankless job. People would see her face a thousand times, admire the work of an artist or sculptor, but often they would not even remember her name. Kiki de Montparnasse was no exception, although her face and her body, turned into a violin, are familiar to almost everyone. We tell the story of a woman who “defined the epoch of Montparnasse”.

Rubinstein and Scriabin, Tolstoy and Gorky, Mechnikov and Einstein posed for him. He was famous as a brilliant portrait painter and illustrator. His paintings are kept by the largest museums in the world and hundreds of collectors. However, for many decades the name of Leonid Pasternak was forgotten. Perhaps the father's genius was overshadowed by the shadow of the genius son — the poet Boris…