Viktor Pivovarov

Nakhova relates that Pivovarov was a major influence and first inspired her to paint.

[4] The Potato Eaters is van Gogh's attempt at expressing the satisfaction of enjoying the fruits of hard, honest work, while the Lemon Eaters depicts heroes with a rather more complicated relationship to consumption.

The preamble to this album of drawings with text, is that Joseph Stalin created a region, Jewish Autonomous Oblast in the Russian Far East where thousands of Jews were sent.

After the death of Stalin, many of them left the region, and those that remained mixed with the local Russian and Chinese populations.

In this way, a subculture was created which included elements of Russian Orthodoxy, Taoist-Buddhism, Judaism and paganism.