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Yelena Zhukova

Yelena Zhukova

Russian artist (1906–1991)

This article is about the Soviet and Russian painter. For information about Elena Zhukova, the fiancée of Rupert Murdoch, see Rupert Murdoch § Personal life.

Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906, Saint Petersburg – 31 October 1991, Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting,[2] most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).

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  1. [1]
    Справочник членов Ленинградской организации Союза художников РСФСР. Л., Художник РСФСР, 1987. C.45.
  2. [2]
    Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.385, 402, 403, 445.

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