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Mihail Chemiakin was born in Moscow in , grew up in occupied East Germany, and returned to Russia in where he was admitted to the Special High..
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Mihail Chemiakin is a Russian painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art tradition of Saint St.
Petersburg.
In Chemiakin was forced out of the USSR by the Soviet authorities.
Background
Chemiakin was born to a military family. His father, a Kabardian from the Caucasus Mountains surnamed Kardanov, had lost his parents and was adopted by a friend of his father"s, White Army officer Piotr Chemiakin.
His father served in the Army there.
Education
His family returned to the Soviet Union in and he studied at the secondary school of art affiliated with the Il’ya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (now Street St.
Petersburg).
Career
The artists father eventually became a Soviet Army officer He received one of the first Orders of the Red Banner at the age of thirteen. Mihail Chemiakin spent his early years in East Germany.
In he was subjecte