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The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.

The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Léon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and participation in the dynamic symbolist/modernist artistic ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War followed by marriage to a prominent Indian nationalist, then with her husband to the hardships of émigré Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist and a mentor to a new generation of modern Indian artists.

Pervaja biografija khudozhnitsy, uchenitsy L. Baksta i K. Petrova-Vodkina v peterburgskoj khudozhestvennoj shkole E. N. Zvantsevoj, avtora prizhiznennykh portretov Mariny Tsvetaevoj i Vladimira Nabokova. Magda Nakhman zhila v Rossii v epokhu Serebrjanogo veka, dvukh revoljutsij 1917 goda i Grazhdanskoj vojny. Ona byla v Germanii vo vremja prikhoda k vlasti Gitlera, a posle stala svidetelnitsej osvoboditelnoj borby v Indii i ustanovlenija tam nezavisimosti. Kniga uvodit chitatelja iz Petrograda i Moskvy v russkuju porevoljutsionnuju provintsiju, ottuda v Berlin i drugie evropejskie stolitsy 1920-1930-kh godov, a zatem v Bombej - po sledam otvazhnoj zhenschiny, kotoraja ne pokorilas sudbe i stala priznannym khudozhnikom i nastavnikom novogo pokolenija indijskikh zhivopistsev. V knige ispolzujutsja pisma, dnevnikovye zapisi i redkie arkhivnye dokumenty.Perevodchik: Bernshtejn LinaRedaktor: Znaesheva I. V.