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About the artist
I have been painting since my early youth, and I inherited talent, so to speak, genetically (my mother came from a family of Russian intelligentsia which fell victim to Stalin’s repressions). In my home on the wall there used to hang my own pencil copy of Courbet’s “A man with a pipe”.
I graduated from Moscow University, philological faculty, later entered and finished Higher Cinema Script Courses. My education encouraged me to take up journalism and playwrighting (I worked in Kirov, Ekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk, Astrakhan, Odessa, Kiev, Moscow). I am the author of about 100 articles published in Moscow and provincial newspapers and magazines. I keep as a memory Boris Polevoy’s New Year congratulation letter that I got from him after my publication in “Youth” literary magazine. (Polevoy was a famous writer and editor-in-chief of “Youth” magazine).
“Sector of silence”, my documentary film about the Black Sea rescue sailors was awarded with Silver Medal at the International Cinema Festival. Teaching Russian classic literature at Moscow State University helped me to give birth to my “landscapes of thought”.
Fourteen years ago I started painting again, by mere chance, and loved it so much that I’m still doing it. My landscapes and still life paintings were exhibited at Kuznetsky Most and Arbat Street in Moscow and in Italy.
Best of all I like travelling across Russia’s countryside and small towns and taking lessons from Russian classic painters, because each of them is a school in himself.
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