Yelena Zhukova

Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) 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).