The first biography of the artist, student of L. Bakst and K. Petrov-Vodkin at the St. Petersburg art school E. N. Zvantseva, author of lifetime portraits of Marina Tsvetaeva and Vladimir Nabokov. Magda Nachman lived in Russia during the Silver Age, two revolutions of 1917 and the Civil War. She was in Germany during Hitler's rise to power, and then witnessed the liberation struggle in India and the establishment of independence there. The book takes the reader from Petrograd and Moscow to the Russian post-revolutionary province, from there to Berlin and other European capitals of the 1920-1930s, and then to Bombay - in the footsteps of a brave woman who did not submit to fate and became a recognized artist and mentor to a new generation of Indian painters . The book uses letters, diary entries and rare archival documents. The publishing layout of the book is preserved in PDF A4 format.