![Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin - A Violin [1918]](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7443/27154698626_0b1da5e313_b.jpg)
Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Khvalynsk, 1878 - Leningrad, 1939) was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer. Until the mid-1960s, Petrov-Vodkin was nearly forgotten in the Soviet Union after his curtailment of painting and turn towards writing. The largest collection of Petrov-Vodkin's works is in the Russian Museum in St Petersburg, where, as of 2012, a whole room in the permanent exhibition is devoted to the painter. Petrov-Vodkin was also an excellent semi-professional violinist.
[State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg - Oil on canvas, 65 x 80 cm]