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Nastasya F. Baraskhova is the pseudonym of a Russian actress and painter, of undetermined age, closely linked to the underground scene of the so-called Moscow chamber theatre in the 90s. With an indolent but vigorous appearance, engulfed gaze and monomaniac character, she specialised in the interpretation of the monologues of a single character from Russian literature: the great tragic, vicious and virtuous figure, from Dostoevsky's ‘The Idiot’, Nastasya Filippovna.

This single character actress is also a single theme painter; a reiterative and obstinate abstraction of vertical stripes, …