The Russian couple arrived in 1923. Sergei Konenkov—a sculptor highly regarded as the “Russian Rodin”—had been given a role in the promotion of an important exhibition of Soviet art to be held at the Grand Central Palace in New York early in 1924. And while his American stay, with his wife Margarita, was intended to last only a few months, it extended to twenty-two years. During this time, Sergei received many commissions, but is best remembered for a 1935 bust of Albert Einstein for the Institute of Advanced Studies at Princeton University, where the eminent physicist was then based. In…