NIKOLAI KUZMIN (1890-1987) By the river

signed in Cyrillic and dated ‘N. Kuzmin/ 1939/ 20.08’ (lower right) pencil on paper 38 x 30.5 cm executed in 1939 Kuzmin Nikolai Vasilyevich was a Soviet graphic artist, illustrator of works of Russian and foreign classical literature, member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR. He was a pupil of Bilibin and Shillingovsky.