Description

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The political turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg and participation in the modernist ferment in pre-Revolutionary Russia to a refugee existence in the Russian countryside during the Russian Civil War, to Berlin, and finally to Bombay, where she established herself as an important artist.

About the Author

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Dr. Lina Bernstein taught Russian and comparative literature at Franklin & Marshall College. She is the author of Gogol's Last Book and numerous articles on Russian art, literature, and culture. She recently curated an online exhibit on Magda Nachman for Moscow's State Museum of Oriental Cultures and is preparing a Russian-language version of Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile.