Konstantin Somov, Russian-French painter and illustrator (b. 1869)
Konstantin Andreyevich Somov (Russian: Константин Андреевич Сомов; November 30, 1869 – May 6, 1939) was a Russian artist associated with the Mir iskusstva.
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