Boris Blai studied in St. Petersburg and at Auguste Rodin in Paris and later settled in the US as an art professor. Starting in 1930 he taught for several decades at the Tyler School of Fine Arts at Temple University in Philadelphia and later at the Blai School of Fine Arts. He was a close friend of the last Czar Nicholas of Russia and had to leave the country shortly before the Revolution. He then was involved in the construction of the Guggenheim Museum in New York. His grandson Adam became a famous photographer in the U.S.
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