Yelena Zhukova
# Yelena Zhukova

Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906, Saint Petersburg – 31 October 1991, Leningrad) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, most famous for her landscape paintings and portraits of various Russian artists such as Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (early 1930s), Yaroslav Nikolaev (1945) and Mikhail Nesterov (1936).

