Leonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky

1902-1987

"Leonid Ouspensky had a great capacity for work. His usual workday consisted of thirteen to fourteen hours, during which he would pass from icon painting to carving to restoration, sometimes a little metal repousse, leaving the evenings and Feastdays for writing articles and books."

- from A Short Biography, by Lydia Alexandrovna Ouspensky