Mikhail Kushnir, Afanasy Nikitin cruise ship, Volga River
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Mikhail Kushnir, Afanasy Nikitin cruise ship, Volga River
Mikhail Kushnir is a music teacher from Tambov. Every year he takes a fourteen day cruise down the Volga River from Moscow to Astrakhan on board the Afanasy Nikitin. The Volga, often referred to as 'Mother Volga', is Europe's longest river and
has two hundred tributaries feeding its course. It rises northwest of Moscow and flows 3700 kilometres to the southeast before emptying into the Caspian Sea near the city of Astrakhan.
Motherland
June 2005
Chromogenic development print
1/3
Image: 18.2 x 22.7 cm
Overall: 20.3 x 25.3 cm
Purchase with funds from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, 2010
2010.0008.0141
Inscriptions verso (handwritten in black ink): edition 1/3 [signed]
