Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Vadym Meller or Vadim Meller, was a Ukrainian-Russian Soviet painter, avant-garde artist (Cubist, Constructivist), theatrical designer, book illustrator and architect. The first artist who was awarded a gold medal in Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (Art Deco ) in Paris 1925. Vadim Meller was born in Saint-Petersburg. He was the second son of a top official in the Ministry of Justice in the Russian Empire. His father George Meller was a noble-born Swede, his mother Helena Caruso, half-Italian-half-Greek, was also from a noble family.