Dmitry Belyayev

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Dmitry Belyaev (artist)

Dmitry Vasilievich Belyaev (Russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Беляев, November 18, 1921, Ryazan Province — September 25, 2007, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian and Soviet painter, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (former Leningrad), a Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

Biography

Dmitry Vasilievich Belyaev was born November 18, 1921 in the village Bortnoe, Rybnovskij district of the Ryazan province, in 18 kilometers from Ryazan city. In 1929, after the death of mother he moved to Moscow together with his father and other children. In Moscow he at first studied in a children's art studio, then at the Moscow Art School of the Memory of Revolution of 1905.

From the last course of the Moscow Art School he was drafted into the Red Army. A Member of the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Southwestern Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front as a tankman. He has wounded, marked by military awards.