Boris Grigoriev

Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk[2][better source needed] and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907 with Dmitry Shcherbinovsky.

[3] Grigoriev went on to study at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg under Alexander Kiselyov, Dmitry Kardovsky and Abram Arkhipov from 1907 to 1912.

[6] However in 1919, Grigoriev travelled and lived abroad in many countries including Finland, Germany, France,[2] the United States, Central and South Americas.

[5] Grigoriev lived for a time in Paris, where he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière.

[7][8] In 1934 he published his poem Russia (Расея) in the American Russian-language newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo.