Lenins, Nothing But Lenins

Abstract

I lived in a 16-square-meter room in a kommunalka on Chekhov Street in the center of Moscow, which was also my studio. There I painted thousands of Lenins, small, big, standard-sized ones, non-standard-sized ones. Not all are signed Boris Vitalievich Kalinovsky because not being a member of the Artist’s Union, I often ghostpainted for other painters.