1. Piotr Petrovich Belousov was a Soviet Ukrainian and Russian graphic artist, painter, art teacher, professor of the Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, People's Artist of the USSR, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR, who lived and worked in Leningrad.
Piotr Belousov was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, being most famous for his portraits and historical paintings.
Piotr Petrovich Belousov was born on 3 May 1912 in the port city of Berdiansk, located on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov, of south-east Ukraine, Russian Empire.
In 1929, Piotr Belousov met with Brodsky and by his invitation comes to Leningrad to continue his study.
Piotr Belousov engaged in drawing and painting under Brodsky leadership, as well as in the studio AKhRs and the Community of Artists.
In 1933, Piotr Belousov entered the first course of the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
Piotr Belousov studied under Mikhail Bernshtein, Pavel Naumov, Alexander Lubimov, and Vladimir Serov.
In 1939, Piotr Belousov graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Isaak Brodsky workshop together with Aleksei Gritsai, Lev Orekhov, Mikhail Kozell, Gleb Verner, Elena Skuin, Nikolai Timkov, Boris Sherbakov, and other young artists.
Piotr Belousov painted genre and historical paintings, portraits, landscapes, worked in easel painting and drawings.
Since 1940, Piotr Belousov had been a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists.
Piotr Belousov was Professor and Head of Department of Drawing since 1956.
Also, Piotr Belousov was elected as the Corresponding Member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR.