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Magda Nachman Acharya (20 July 1889–12 February 1951) was a Russian-born painter, draftsman, and book illustrator. She was born in Pavlovsk (a suburb of St. Petersburg), Russia, into a well-to-do and cultured family. Her father, Maximilian Nachman, was a Jew from Riga. A graduate of the law faculty of St. Petersburg University, he had the right to live in the capital. He served as a legal adviser at the German embassy as well as to the Nobel Brothers’ Petroleum Production Company. Her mother, Klara Emilia Maria von Roeder, was a Lutheran Baltic German. Magda and her siblings were brought up in the Lutheran faith. After graduating in 1906 from the Saint Anna Gymnasium, known as the Annenschule, she began attending art classes at the Mutual Aid Society of Russian Artists. Between 1907 and 1913, Magda attended the Zvantseva Art Academy, in St. Petersburg, where she studied with Léon Bakst, Mstislav Dobuzhinsky, and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. She began exhibiting her work in 1910. In 1913, at the dacha of Maximilian Voloshin in Koktebel, she met the great Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva, Marina's husband, Sergei Efron, and his sisters, Vera and Elizaveta. Here she painted an oil portrait of Tsvetaeva, the only oil portrait of the poet made during her lifetime. In 1916, she moved to Moscow, where she completed a portrait of Sergei (lost). Magda spent most of 1917--1920 in the provinces. In 1917, she completed a stage design for the play Tartuffe at the Moscow Theater of Cooperatives. From autumn 1919 to autumn 1920 she worked as a stage and costume designer at the people’s theater in the village of Ust-Dolyssy, near Nevel, together with Elizaveta Efron, the director of the theater.