Vasily Vasilievich Sokolov (1915 - 2013)

Vasily Vasilievich Sokolov

Vasily Vasilievich Sokolov (Russian: Василий Васильевич Соколов) was a Soviet and Russian artist of the second half of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He is known as a painter and teacher, a representative of the Leningrad school of painting.

Vasily Sokolov worked in portrait, landscape, domestic and historical genres. Among his most famous historical paintings is "Stalin and Voroshilov on the Tsaritsyn front in 1918". Throughout his career, the artist combined creativity with pedagogical and public activities. He was twice elected chairman of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.