About the artist:

Born 10.04.1923, village Troitskoe (now Zaporozhye region) – Died 28.11.2005, Lutsk. Painter, member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (from 1971), Honored Artist of Ukraine (1989), holder of the title People’s Artist of Ukraine (2003), Laureate of Kondzelevich award (1998). World War II participant. Studied in Dnipropetrovsk College of Art (1939–1941). Worked in Volynskiy Region: in Manevichi, in Kivertsevski Industrial Forestry Plant and in arts-production workshops of the Ukrainian Art Fund in Volyn (from 1947). 
Participated in national, regional exhibitions and abroad (including his solo exhibitions), in particular in Poland (1988). Works: "Lutsk Castle" (1963), "Over the Stir" (1967), "The Wealth of Lake Svityaz", "Generous Autumn" (both in 1976), "The Memory of the Zaporizhzhya Sich Cossack Leader Ivan Sirko" (1986), "John’s Wood Blossoming"(1990), "From the Epoch’s Depth" (1993), a series of  "Architectural Monuments of Ukraine" (1993-1994)," Still Life of John’s Wood "(1998) etc.