Léonid Ouspensky

Léonid Ouspensky

Léonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky was a famous Russian Iconographer

Born in 1902 on his father’s estate in the village of Golaia Snova (now Golosnovka), in the north of the Voronezh region in Russia and died in 1987 [ [http://www.gsinai.com/rw/icons/ouspensky_biography.php St Gregory of Sinai Monasetry] ] .

Specialised in Iconography. Studied and taught art in Paris.

One of his students was the Egyptian Iconographer Isaac Fanous

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