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Tsereteli was also a painter - notably of flowers - and an architect who took a key role in reconstructing Moscow's Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

The painter said she was forever in awe of how women supported other women in times of crisis, and she described how her work paid "homage" to their "strength and grace".

But the beatific, charismatic painter, who developed a rock-star following, was not all that he seemed.

At his inauguration ball, a "worship painter" even replicated Trump's image while the crowd sang "amen" over and over, underscoring this shift in the de facto theology of these "Christians."

He believes you can't judge a painter until their last work is done - but looking at his own work gathered together in Paris, "I can see what I was always trying to do, really".