Mstislav Valerianovich DOBUZHINSKY or DOBUJINSKY (Lithuanian: Mstislavas Dobužinskis, August 14, 1875, Novgorod – November 20, 1957, New York City) was a Russian-Lithuanian artist known for his urban landscapes where he depicts the explosive growth and decay of the city in the early twentieth century. Also a theater man in the 1920s and 1930s at the Tovstonogov Theater, he is also a member of the artists' association Mir iskousstva (which literally means "World of Art"). At the beginning of his career (1902-1905) he was influenced by Art Nouveau and the most famous artists of the Silver Age - Alexandre Benois and Constantin Somov. By style, Dobujinsky was close to the Symbolists. He worked in the field of easel and book graphics (designed magazines "The World of Art", "Golden Fleece", "Apollon"), like other members of the "World of Art" he painted historical paintings ("Peter the Great in Holland"). He designed theatrical performances of the Moscow Art Theater (“A Month in the Village” by Turgenev, 1909; “Nikolai Stavrogin” by Dostoevsky, 1913), and performances of the Maly Theater (“Oliver Cromwell” by Lunacharsky, 1921) , enterprises Serge de Diaghilev and also the scenography of Mikhail Fokin's ballets: 1914 - "Butterflies" / 1914 - "Midas" / 1941 - "Russian soldier". During the First World War Dobuzhinsky went with Eugene Lanceray to the front lines to sketch. In 1918, he supervised the theatrical workshop at the State Educational Workshops of the Decorative Arts (the former Stieglitz School of the Technical Drawing). In 1923-24, he went abroad to study developments in European art and to arrange one-man shows. In 1924, Dobuzhinsky followed the advice of Jurgis Baltrusaitis and withdrew to Lithuania. He was naturalized there in 1924 and lived in Kaunas until 1925. Between 1925 and 1929 lived in Paris where he designed sets for Nikita Balieff's The Bat. He returned to Lithuania in 1929. In Lithuania he worked at a state theatre as scenographer and created scenography for 38 plays, besides running a private painting school (1930–1933).He then emigrated to England in 1935, and moved to the United States in 1939 where he stayed for the duration of the war. He spent the last ten years of his life in Europe, occasionally returning to New York for theatrical work. He died in New York on November 20, 1957. His memoirs were published posthumously in Russian.