Zinaida Antonovna Astapovich-Bocharova (1898 - 1993)

Zinaida Antonovna Astapovich-Bocharova

Zinaida Antonovna Astapovich-Bocharova (Russian: Зинаида Антоновна Астапович-Бочарова) was a Russian, Soviet and Belarusian artist of the twentieth century. She is known as a painter, graphic artist and teacher.

Zinaida Astapovich-Bocharova worked in the genres of portrait, landscape, propaganda poster, as well as book illustration - mainly for fairy tale books. She painted in watercolor, oil, pencil, charcoal, gouache, and pastel. Much of her work from the 1930s and 1940s was lost during the evacuation of the artist from besieged Leningrad.