Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin was a well-known Russian and Soviet painter and writer. His artistic personality was "universal." He was interested and successful in many aspects of culture, from painting to literature and writing. Petrov-Vodkin saw the world as a whole and did not separate art from science, as was common in the Renaissance period. His main goal in life was to acquire an integral view of the world, without which, he thought, the whole creative process would be senseless.