Curators Şeyda Çetin and Ebru Esra Satıcı discuss the Meşher gallery's exhibition on Ukrainian painter Alexis Gritchenko's years in Istanbul from 1919 to 1921.

Gritchenko produced over 600 works while living in the occupied city, to which thousands of White Russians fled after the First World War and the Russian Revolution.

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