Yelena Zhukova

This article is about the Soviet and Russian painter. For information about Elena Zhukova, the wife of Rupert Murdoch, see Rupert Murdoch § Personal life.

Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova (Russian: Елена Павловна Жукова; 5 June 1906 – 31 October 1991) was a Soviet and Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,^[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad. She was regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting,^[2] 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).

Yelena Zhukova
Born	Yelena Pavlovna Zhukova 5 June 1906 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	31 October 1991 (1991-11-01) (aged 85) Leningrad, Soviet Union
Education	Tavricheskaya Art School
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

See also

• Fine Art of Leningrad
• Leningrad School of Painting
• List of 20th-century Russian painters
• List of painters of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
• Saint Petersburg Union of Artists