Olga Bogaevskaya

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| birth_date = 25 October 1915

| birth_place = Petrograd, Russian Empire

| death_date = {{d-da|30 November 2000|25 October 1915}}

| death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia

| field = Painting, graphics

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| training = Repin Institute of Arts

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Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya ({{langx|ru|О́льга Бори́совна Богае́вская}}; 25{{nbsp}}October 1915{{snd}}30{{nbsp}}November 2000) was a Russian Soviet painter and graphic artist, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly named Petrograd and Leningrad). She was a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists,Directory of members of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation. - Leningrad: Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1987. - p.15. regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School.- Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – pp.9, 15, 20, 21, 24, 385, 387-393, 395, 397, 399-402, 405, 407, 439, 445.

Biography

Bogaevskaya was born on 25 October 1915 in Petrograd in a family of scientists, archaeologists, and art historians. She studied at the Art and Industry College, where she was a student of Dmitry Zagoskin (1931–1932). She then continued her education at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she was a student of Sergei Priselkov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, David Bernshtein, and Alexander Osmerkin (1933–1940). In 1940 Bogaevskaya graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the Alexander Osmerkin workshop with the rank of artist of painting. Her degree work was the painting Meting of Girlfriend.Anniversary Directory graduates of Saint Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, Russian Academy of Arts. 1915 - 2005. - Saint Petersburg: Pervotsvet Publishing House, 2007.- p.52.

In 1940 Bogaevskaya married a fellow student at the institute, artist Gleb Savinov. In 1940–1941, she taught painting at the Secondary Art School at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. Bogaevskaya was a regular participant of exhibitions of Leningrad artists since the late 1940s. She was a talented colorist. The leading themes of her work were child portraits and still lifes in the interior and exterior. Beginning in 1940, Bogaevskaya was a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. Her works of the 1950s and 1960s put her among the leading painters of Leningrad.{{Cite web|url=https://socrealizm.com.ua/gallery/artist/bogaevskaia-ob-1915|title=Ленинградский художник Богаевская Ольга Борисовна|website=Socialist Realism. Kiev club of collectors.}}

Bogaevskaya died on 30 November 2000 in Saint Petersburg at the age of eighty-six. Her paintings reside in the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, in museums and private collections in Russia,Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. - Saint Petersburg: NP-Print Edition, 2007. – p.6-7. Italy,Olga Borisovna Bogaevskaya. - Torino: Galleria PIRRA, 1996. Britain,Matthew C. Bown. Dictionary of 20th Century Russian and Soviet Painters 1900-1980s. - London: Izomar, 1998. {{ISBN|0-9532061-0-6}}, {{ISBN|978-0-9532061-0-0}}. France,L' École de Leningrad. Auction Catalogue. — Paris: Drouot Richelieu, 21 Decembre 1990. — р.58-59. in the U.S., Japan, and other countries.