1. Lev Alexandrovich Russov was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist, and sculptor, living and working in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists and representative of the Leningrad school of painting, most known for his portrait painting.
Lev Alexandrovich Russov was born on 31 January 1926 in Leningrad, into a family of employees.
In 1945, in connection with the return to Leningrad Lev Russov was transferred to Tavricheskaya Art School, from which he graduated in 1947.
In 1955, Lev Russov was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet artists on the recommendations of the famous painters Piotr Buchkin, Yuri Neprintsev and Veniamin Kremer.
Lev Alexsandrovich Russov died on 20 February 1987 in Leningrad in the sixty-second year of his life from heart disease.
The widow of the artist Ekaterina Vasilievna Lev Russov outlived her husband by 15 years and died on June 20,2002, in St Petersburg at the sixty-ninth year of life.
For ten years, Lev Russov created a gallery of portraits that enriched the various types of modern portraiture.
Lev Russov knows how to keep this first impression to the end and convey to the viewer.
Some of his best works of this period Russov painted in the village of Pavshino on the Oredezh River near Leningrad, where in the late 1950s a group of young artists settled: G Bagrov, E Shram, K Slavin and N Slavina, L Kuzov, A Yakovlev, G Antonov.
Lev Russov's coming always brought light, a smile, joy and unselfish communication into life.
Yevgeny Alexsandrovich's acquaintance and friendship with Leva Russov was measured for decades, and therefore the atmosphere of the conversations was sincere and simple.
Lev Russov worked for a long time on the concept and composition of the picture, rejecting one option after another.
Lev Russov had another desirable dream-topic: Mravinsky and Shostakovich, but the disease, lack of life time and energy did not allow to realize it in its final form.
Still-life in the works of Lev Russov is closely connected with the colorful and compositional tasks that the artist set for himself in the work on the portrait.
Lev Russov's life was divided between a city workshop, a house in Pavshino on Oredezh and communication with a narrow circle of old friends.