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Pyotr: Engineer Turned Portrait Drawer

Pyotr: Engineer Turned Portrait Drawer

It’s a story I have heard hundreds of times over the years from Russians older than 40, but it still touches me nonethless…..I asked Pyotr how he began working as a portrait artist. He said he was working as an engineer in the late 1980s but “was forced to by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the economy” to find some other means of taking care of his family. Petr said he would take his son, then a small child, with him occasionally to the pedestrian street or park where he drew.

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