Boris Lurie, "Disordered Woman", 1955 The story of Boris Lurie, the avant -garde and the Stalinist, and his fans of Gertrude Stein It all started with an amazing story about the artist Boris Lurie, who was retold in New York. Lurie was born in St. Petersburg in 1924, grew up in Riga, and during the war he ended up in a concentration camp. And then miracles begin. “Boris, get up,” the young man hears his father's voice. Maybe this is a hallucination of hunger.