Elena Zhukova

Elena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; June 5, 1906, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire — October 31, 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. Elena Zhukova regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her landscape paintings. Known her portraits of various periods which were painted by such known Russian artists as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945), Mikhail Nesterov (1936).