Katya Medvedeva

Yekaterina (Katya) Medvedeva was born January 10, 1937, in the village Golubino of Novooskolsky District in Belgorod Oblast into a peasant family.

Her parents died of starvation in 1947, when she was nine years old, and she was brought up in the Shusha's orphanage of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region Azerbaijan SSR.

In her life, she worked at many different jobs, including: a waitress, postwoman, weaver, teacher, costume designer.

Her paintings were soon recognised by art critics and she began to have exhibitions.

Copenhagen (Denmark), Stockholm (Sweden), Helsinki (Finland), Prague (Czech Republic).