Valentin Serov

«World History in Faces. Artists» — a series of books that allows the reader to get acquainted with the biographies of the brightest and most famous artists of the past. Each edition is accompanied by reproductions of the masters' paintings and interesting facts from their lives. Valentin Alexandrovich Serov (1865-1911) — a Russian painter and draftsman, one of the main and most popular portraitists of the Russian modernism at the turn of the 19th—20th centuries. Academician, active member of the Imperial Academy of Arts.