Introducing Katerina Belkina. The Berlin-based Russian grew up in Samara. With a population of about one million people, Samara is still considered somewhat provincial by Russian standards. By the time Katerina had reached her teenage years, she knew that she would want to leave the Soviet country one day. After high school Katerina didn’t see much of an opportunity for her to attend art school in St. Petersburg or Moscow. “It was the nineties and much of Russia was in…
