Mihail Chemiakin

Sculpture: Children - Victims of the Sins of Adults, installed Bolotnaya Square Moscow, 2001 Ballet: Chemiakin's staging of Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" (set, costume, production design and creative concept), premiered Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, 12 February 2001 Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin or Shemyakin (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Шемякин; born 4 May 1943) is a Russian-American painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art tradition of St. Petersburg.

She met her future husband in 1941 when he came to the Moscow circus to recruit volunteers to fight in World War II, and accompanied him to the front.

[2] The studies are presented in the form of sheets with images pasted on them, grouped according to the principle of visual generality — thematic, stylistic, figurative, iconographic.

In addition, he suggested that everyone should compose their own personal museum, selecting works without relying on the opinions and limited choices of major institutions.

[5] "Musée imaginaire" appears as an alternative to the classical museum in the evaluation of contemporary art, for which no clear aesthetic requirements have been defined.

Mihail Chemiakin (left) with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2001