Valentina Rakhina
# Valentina Rakhina

Valentina Ivanovna Rakhina (Russian: Валентина Ивановна Рахина; June 9, 1932, Leningrad, USSR - 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation) was a Soviet Russian painter, graphic artist and art teacher, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists (before 1992 — the Leningrad Union of Artists), who lived and worked in Leningrad - Petersburg. Rakhina is regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.

## Biography

In 1959 Valentina Rakhina graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Boris Ioganson workshop with the rank of artist of painting. His degree work was a painting titled A White Night.

In 1960 Rakhina was adopted into the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Since 1959 she had participated in art exhibitions. In 1972 together with her husband, artist German Egoshin, she took part in the famous "Exhibition of Eleven" Leningrad artists. She painted landscapes, cityscapes, still life, and genre compositions.

