The painting is based on the idea the Siberians fought with bows, arrows, and leather armor against the muzzle-loaded guns of Yermak’s Cossacks, though most details of the expedition are lost to ...

Born on September 30, 1933 in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian Soviet Union, Kabakov studied at both the Moscow Art School and the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute in Moscow, where he learned graphic design ...