Mikhail Evstafiev

Mikhail Alexandrovich Jewstafjew ​​(Russian: Михаил Александрович Евстафьев; * 1963 in Moscow ) is a Russian painter, photographer and writer.

Under the influence of his mother, grandmother and his great-grandfather, all three sculptors of the work, he began painting at an early age, but then decided to study journalism at Moscow State University. In the 1980s he served in the Afghanistan war, about which he later published the novel Two steps from heaven. Later he worked as a war correspondent for international news agencies in various trouble spots.

As a photographer, he also devoted himself to the Impressionist topography, particularly prominent for his work on Cuba, on Orthodox Old Believers in Romania and about his personal residence in London.

His paintings and photographs have been exhibited at various exhibition sites worldwide: in the State Kremlin Palace in the Moscow Manege and in the house of the artist, in the Vienna Hofburg Congress Center, and Grand Central Terminal in New York. His works are in private collections in Austria, Great Britain, France, Poland, Russia and the United States.