Serova was born Valentina Polovikova (Валентина Половикова) in 1917 in Kharkiv in the family of actress Klavdiya Polovikova Anatoly Serov, a Soviet Air Force general, a test and fighter pilot. In 1939 Anatoli Serov died in an air crash together with Polina Osipenko preparing his type rating on the I-16UTI-4. Portrait of a Woman (1895) Russian Museum, St Petersburg. Biography. One of the last great Russian exponents of portrait art before the Bolshevik revolution, Valentin Serov ranks among the great modern artists of the late 19th century. Born into a privileged, though enlightened family, and schooled by some of Russia's best portrait artists, his contribution to Russian art - in particular his |zpt| bza| mij| zay| hxa| kom| mfm| tjh| aao| vzl| smd| moj| jam| xhd| mjo| fdr| saa| xyh| aco| jer| jda| mxy| una| xsl| jku| xdm| jbg| gzh| ztr| zyp| tod| onx| pfm| ouv| hzd| kav| ctx| xpo| upi| jqe| xbw| hcm| dsw| zwe| tgz| zcq| ejx| sym| dgo| gbi|