Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of the most brilliant and original masters of art of the 20th century. His main achievement is considered to be abstract painting, which is considered to be one of the golden funds of avant-garde art. In addition, he was an outstanding writer, playwright and theater director, art theorist and teacher, who developed his own methods of teaching the arts. The book offers a psychological portrait of the artist, immersed in doubts and searches, internal conflicts, difficult relationships and disputes with time and contemporaries. The master's dramatic twists and turns were as if he had lived several lives. On the pages of the book, the reader will find a large galaxy of people of art and historical figures with whom Kandinsky had one relationship or another - from painters of Russia and Germany to major musicians and poets from different countries, as well as thinkers and scientists of the beginning and first half of the 20th century. [Adapted for AlReader]