Zinaida Serebryakova

Only once having seen the portraits of the brush of Zinaida Evgenievna Serebryakova, it is impossible to confuse them with the works of other authors. Having not received a serious art education, she combined the genes of famous creative families Benois and Lancer and was fanatically devoted to art. In her work, lyrical female and children"s portraits are adjacent to monumental paintings dedicated to Russian peasants. Her painting became known already in the first decade of the 20th century, but after a forced departure to France, it “fell” from Russian art culture, and our contemporaries begin to comprehend it again. Doctor of Arts of A. A. Rusakov tells about the fate of the artist on the basis of memories, letters, as well as the deep knowledge of her work