From a Grandmother's Bookshelf to the Library of Congress: Nikita Mishin's Lifelong Love Affair with Artist Mikhail Nesterov

Source: International Business Times

The catalogue raisonne of celebrated Russian artist Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov, published by Nikita Mishin's Dar Charity Foundation, in its new home in the United States Library of Congress. I could not yet read, but I already knew I loved him. As a child, I spent long stretches at my grandmother Valentina Pavlovna Khokhlova's flat in Lytkarino, a small town near Moscow.