The Russian School of Painting - Alexandre Benois

There are three principal characters involved in the publication of this work: Alexandre Benois, Christian Brinton, and Abraham Yarmolinsky. The primary author, Benois, was a well-known Russian artist and critic. Notably, Benois collaborated with Sergei Diaghilev and his Ballet Russes to bring aspects of Russian art and artistry into Western Europe and to promote principles of Art Nouveau and the Aesthetic Movement in Russia. Weathering the upheaval of the Russian Revolution of 1917, he served as the curator for the galleries on the “Old Masters” in the Hermitage for eight years before leaving to settle in Paris. Christian Brinton, the writer of the introduction, was a prominent art critic and collector from Pennsylvania. He appears to have spearheaded the translation and publication of this work from Russian to English. Lastly, Abraham Yarmolinsky serves as translator. He was the longtime head of the Slavic Division of the New York Public Library. Yarmolinsky is known to have translat