Coal / cardboard. Signed in Cyrillic on top left, inscribed/titled in Cyrillic on verso.

80 x 60 cm. Framed : 92 x 72 cm.

Profile portrait of St. Olga with crown. She was the regent of Kievan Rus from 945 to 960. Water damage.

Russian painter, studied in Moscow, recipient of the Moscow State Order of the Red Banner of Labor, had several exhibitions in Russia, France, Cuba, USA and Canada. Taught at the Moscow Pedagogical Academy, after 1990 worked in the U.S. as an artist and interior designer, since 2009 working as a professor of the Department of Painting of the Russian Academy of Sculpture and Architecture.