Victor Teterin

His father worked in ship repair shops, a mother was a dressmaker, she engaged in the upbringing of children and housekeeping.

In 1949 he graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Mikhail Avilov workshop, together with Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Ivan Godlevsky, Valery Pimenov, Maria Rudnitskaya, and other young artists.

In 1949—1956 he taught painting and drawings at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after Vera Mukhina.

Among his best known paintings of the 1950s there were "At the Kazan Cathedral" (1949), "Harvesting", "A Winter in Pavlovsk"[3] (both 1950), "A Portrait of Wife in Yellow Dress",[4] "Still Life",[5] "Landscape in Gurzuf"[6] (all 1953), "Portrait of a Mother behind a Sewing Machine", "Sredny Prospekt of the Vasilievsky Island", "Portrait of a Man" (all 1954), "Still Life"[7] (1955), "Peaches and Pears" (1956), "In front of May",[8] "Autumn Bouquet" (both 1957), "Quince and Grapes", "Apple Tree Branch",[9] "A Working Lad" (all 1958), "In Sunny Day", "Road Builders" (both 1959), and others.

Among his last paintings were "Naked"[19] (1981), "Toilet" (1982), "Apples, a Bottle and a Basket"[20] (1983), "Still life with a Spanish Jug"[21] (1985), "Sea shore in Gurzuf", "Table Tennis" (both 1985), and others.