Одеяло

1913

Designs “The Death of Pazukhin” at the Moscow Art Theatre

Kustodiev designed the sets and costumes for The Death of Pazukhin at the Moscow Art Theatre (other accounts date it to 1914).

1913

Teaches at the New Art Workshop

Kustodiev taught at Princess M. D. Gagarina's New Art Workshop in St Petersburg.

1914

Gold medal at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö

Kustodiev received a gold medal at the Baltic Exhibition in Malmö, Sweden.

1915

“Autumn Violins” at the Art Theatre, and nightmares

Kustodiev came to Moscow to design I. D. Surguchev's Autumn Violins at the Art Theatre already gravely ill: at night he screamed with pain, haunted by the same nightmare of black cats sinking their claws into his back and tearing his vertebrae.

1916

Surgery and paralysis: confined to a wheelchair

When the pain in his arm returned, Kustodiev underwent surgery in Petrograd: the arm was saved, but his legs began to fail. In his last years he was confined to a wheelchair and painted lying down — and it was then that he created his brightest, most joyful works.

summer 1917

A summer at the Konkala sanatorium in Vyborg

After his second operation Kustodiev spent the summer at the Konkala sanatorium in Vyborg, painting there portraits of Countess S. A. Grabowska against a pine park, of Lopatina and of Anita Budengof, the picture “On the Bridge” and the landscapes “Konkola (Finland)” and “Forest Lake at Konkola”.