Aleksandr Samokhvalov
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Aleksandr Andreyevich Samokhvalov (1894-1974) was a Russian painter and graphic artist.
He trained at the Academy of Arts for achitecture St. Petersburg from 1914 to 1917 and in Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin’s workshop from 1920 to 1923. He travelled with Petrov-Vodkin to Samarkand. In 1924 Samokhvalov designed a memorial to Lenin in Leningrad in the form of a gigantic glass cube.
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