Alexander Zaytsev
Valentina Vasilievna Monakhova (born Valentina Vasilieva) was born August 23, 1932, in Leningrad, USSR. In 1952 she entered the painting department of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin. She studied at Leonid Khudiakov, Vasily Sokolov, Valery Pimenov, Alexander Zaytsev.