 Due to his recognitions as a gestating artist, Kosta was selected to attend a distant and more prestigious school, the school of the Stravopol Lyceum.This school was one of great color, and was in a region of Russian significance, the later place where Mikhail Gorbachev cut his teeth.Kosta's remarkable facility with brush and pen was apprehended and remarked upon by the Russian drawing master Smirnov, who was not related to the beverage.