Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was a Russian and Soviet painter and writer, born into a cobbler's family on the Volga. He trained under Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin in Moscow and developed a distinctive 'spherical perspective' that curved his compositions to suggest the roundness of the globe. His best-known painting, Bathing of a Red Horse (1912), became an emblem of Russia's coming upheavals, and he later served as the first president of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.