Elena Kiselyova (Chernaya)

Painter. Born in the family of mathematician Andrei Kiselyov in Voronezh (1878). Studied under Dmitry Kardovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1898–1907) and at the Académie de Rodolphe Julian in Paris (1908). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Paris (1908). Member of the Society of Architects and Artists (1910). Emigrated to Belgrade (1921). Died in Belgrade (1974). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1904). Contributed to the Spring Exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1906–10) and the exhibitions of the New Society of Artists (1906, 1910, 1912), Exhibition of Modern Female Portraits (1910), Union of Russian Artists (1910–17), Moscow Fellowship of Artists (1911) and the International Exhibitions in Munich (1909) and Rome (1911).