... Kuril Islands, fish and fishery scenes, a series of Sakhalin town views, and portraits of the indigenous Nivkh people. Though he seemed to be assimilated into a new environment in his work, Mantkava did ...
(2015 Russian Art of the 20th Century and Contemporary Russian Art)
... regime. The area including Shikotan Island forms the southern Kuril Islands in the Okhotsk Sea. The artists fascinated with the wilderness of Shikotan’s beautiful sea coasts and rolling hills and those, ...