Zinaida Serebriakova (1884 - 1967) ✽ John Sokoloff / Valleys

Thank you everyone for watching and for comments! ༺❀༻ All the best! Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (née Lanceray)[1] (Russian: Зинаи́да Евге́ньевна Серебряко́ва, 12 December [O.S. 30 November] 1884 – 19 September 1967) was a Russian (later French) painter. Zinaida Serebriakova was born on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov (now Kharkiv, Ukraine) into one of the most refined and artistic families in the Russian Empire. She belonged to the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a famous architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science. Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a famous painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. Her father, Yevgeny Nikolayevich Lanceray (Wikidata), was a well-known sculptor, and her mother, who was Alexandre Benois’ sister, had a talent for drawing. One of Zinaida’s brothers, Nikolay Lanceray, was a talented architect, and her other brother,