With bears in Siberia

1881–1923 · Miejsce pracy

Moscow

1910–1922

Chief decorator and artist of the Moscow theatres

Korovin becomes the chief decorator and artist of the Moscow theatres, a post he holds from 1910 to 1922.

1923

Leaves for France on Lunacharsky’s advice

On the advice of the People’s Commissar for Education Anatoly Lunacharsky, Korovin moves to Paris to treat his heart condition and to help his handicapped son. Other accounts say he left the country in 1922.

after 1923

His works are stolen before an exhibition: poverty

A large exhibition of Korovin’s works was planned, but the works were stolen and he was left penniless; for years he produced numerous Russian Winters and Paris Boulevards just to make ends meet.

1923–1939

Travel: France

1923–1939

More than 400 stories in émigré publications

When failing eyesight forced Korovin to give up the visual arts completely, he went on writing stories: there were more than four hundred of them, published in the émigré Paris periodicals Russia and Slavdom, Illustrated Russia and Vozrozhdenie.