Russian women artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 32. Chapters: Marie Bashkirtseff, Marie Vassilieff, Elena Kostenko, Anna Kostrova, Nadezhda Shteinmiller, Zlata Bizova, Elena Skuin, Zinaida Serebriakova, Lyubov Popova, Taisia Afonina, Evgenia Antipova, Nina Veselova, Aleksandra Ekster, Valentina Monakhova, Maria Rudnitskaya, Galina Smirnova, Irina Getmanskaya, Marina Kozlovskaya, Natalia Goncharova, Galina Rumiantseva, Tatiana Gorb, Elena Gorokhova, Vera Nazina, Valeria Larina, Maya Kopitseva, Evgenia Baykova, Kapitolina Rumiantseva, Maria Zubreeva, Elisabeth Bohm, Tatiana Kopnina, Irina Baldina, Irina Dobrekova, Nina Genke-Meller, Svetlana K-Lie, Angelina Beloff, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Seraphima Blonskaya, Maria Serebriakova, Kseniya Boguslavskaya, Varvara Baruzdina, Evgeniya Barakina. Excerpt: Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko (Russian: ; August 9, 1926, Leningrad, USSR) - Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation), regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings. Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was born August 9, 1926 in Leningrad in a family famous scientist Electrical Engineering. Her father, Mikhail Kostenko was an Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, one of the major organizers of Soviet science. In 1938, Elena Kostenko entered at the Leningrad Secondary Art School under the All-Russian Academy of Arts, which is trained with a break until 1946. Her teachers were Leonid Ovsyannikov, Alexander Zaitsev, Leonid Sholokhov, Alexander Debler, Vladimir Gorb. Together with Elena Kostenko in Leningrad Secondary Art School studied many well-known in the future Russian artists and sculptors including Mikhail Anikushin, Evgenia Antipova, Vladimir Chekalov, Abram Grushko, Iya Venkova, Maya Kopitseva, Anatoli Levitin, Oleg Lomakin, Nina Veselova, Vecheslav Zagonek, Alexei Eriomin, Marina Kozlovskaya, Yuri Tulin, Victor Teterin, and others. Creative atmosphere that prevailed in those years in Leningrad Secondary Art School, meet the aspirations of its pupils. Teachers inculcate a taste and love for true art, and to get creative impulses of the actual life. This reflected a realistic direction of the Leningrad School of painting. Offended, 1963In 1946, after graduating from Secondary Art School Elena Kostenko enters the first year of painting faculty of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. She studied of Semion Abugov, Yuri Neprintsev, Mikhail Platunov, Andrey Mylnikov. In 1952 Elena Kostenko graduated from Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin in Vikto