Elena Zhukova

Elena Pavlovna Zhukova
Born	June 5, 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	October 31, 1991 Leningrad, USSR
Education	Tavricheskaya Art School
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

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).