Boris Grigoriev

Boris Grigoriev (; 11 July 1886 – 7 February 1939) was a painter, graphic artist, and writer.

Biography Grigoriev was born in Rybinsk and studied at the Stroganov Art School from 1903 to 1907 with Dmitry Shcherbinovsky. 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. He began exhibiting his work in 1909 as a member of the Union of Impressionists group,

After his return to Saint Petersburg in 1913

However, in 1919, Grigoriev travelled and lived abroad in many countries including Finland, Germany, France, It was either at this time, or while he lived in New York – there are conflicting reports – that he had an affair with the young painter Martha Visser't Hooft, then Martha Hamlin.

In 1934, he published his poem Russia (Расея) in the American Russian-language newspaper Novoye Russkoye Slovo. The poem was a poetic reflection of his famous Russia series of paintings. He also wrote a poem, America, which was not published until 2003.

Grigoriev died in Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1939.

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