Boris with Kornei Chukovsky, the children’s author1910 Vladimir Mayakovsky, poet, playwright and Russian Futurist, aged seventeen1930s Albert Einstein, theoretical physicistlate 1890s Lev Tolstoy, author of War and Peace and Anna Kareninalate 1890s Lev Tolstoy in his habitual peasant blouse1890s Anton Rubinstein, pianist, composer, conductor and Rosalia’s teacherAugust 1917 Ekaterina Breshkovskaya (‘Grandmother of the Revolution’) in Leonid’s studioArtúr Nikisch, the Hungarian conductor, with Feodor Chaliapin, the operatic bass, behindAlexander Scriabin, composer and pianist, with his second wifeChaim Bialik, Jewish poet, writer, translator, and friend.1881 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer, co-soloist with RosaliaIsadora Duncan, American mother of modern dance
