Valentina Rakhina

Valentina Ivanovna Rakhina (Russian: Валентина Ивановна Рахина; born 9 June 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),^[1] who lived and worked in Leningrad - Petersburg. Rakhina is regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.^[2]

Valentina Ivanovna Rakhina
Born	9 June 1932 (1932-06-09) (age 92) Leningrad, USSR
Died	2013 Saint Petersburg
Nationality	USSR, Russian Federation
Known for	Painting
Movement	Realism

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.^[3]

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.

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