Lyubov Mileyeva-Lanskaya

Painter, graphic artist, illustrator, poster designer. Born in the family of a doctor called Fyodor Mileyev in Ryazan (1894). Studied under Jan Ciagli?skj, Nicholas Roerich and Ivan Bilibin at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts in St Petersburg (c. 1910–14). Treated wounded and sick patients in the Surgical Hospital of the Society of Women Physicians in Sochi (1916–23). Worked as an apprentice and artist of the agitprop poster studio at the Decorative Institute in Petrograd/Leningrad (1923–25). Visited the Ukraine (1925), Meschyora (1926), Caucasus (1927–29) and Central Asia (1929–30). Illustrated children’s books (late 1920s). Died of typhus in Samarkand (1930). Contributed to exhibitions, including Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris (1925, gold medal), The Avant-Garde: Before and After at Europalia in the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels (2005), Virada russa: A vanguarda na Coleção do Museu Estatal Russo de São Petersburgo at the Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro (2009) and posthumous one-woman shows at the Ryazan Museum of Local Studies in Ryazan (1936) and the Ryazan Museum Complex of History and Architecture in the Oleg Palace of the Ryazan Kremlin (2014).