Mikhail Evstafiev

Who is Mikhail Evstafiev?

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Evstafiev, is a Russian artist, photographer, and writer.

His interest in painting and photography began at an early age. His mother, grandmother and great grandfather — all prominent Russian sculptors — inspired him to develop his own style in art. His work is listed in "Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon".

In the late 1980s he volunteered to serve in Afghanistan and spent two years in the Soviet army, stationed in Kabul, witnessing the numerous combat operations and the 1989 withdrawal of Soviet troops. He later published the novel Two Steps From Heaven about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Working for leading international news organizations in the 1990s, he also covered the wars and armed conflicts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chechnya, Georgia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Tajikistan and Transdniestria, as well as the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 and the Russian constitutional crisis of 1993.