This is Vladimir Seleznev

Vladimir Ivanovich Seleznev (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Селезне́в; August 3, 1928, Leningrad, USSR – 1991, Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian realist painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, member of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation, regarded by art historian Sergei V. Ivanov as a representative of the Leningrad studious of painting, most well-known for his genre paintings and portraits.

Vladimir Ivanovich Seleznev was born August 3, 1928 in the Leningrad, USSR.

In 1953 Vladimir Seleznev graduated from Ilya Repin Institute in Rudolf Frentz workshop. He studied below Mikhail Platunov, Ivan Stepashkin, Piotr Belousov, and Yuri Neprintsev.

Since 1951 Vladimir Seleznev has participated in Art Exhibitions. He painted portraits, landscapes, battle and historical paintings, genre scenes, and etudes curtains from nature.

Vladimir Seleznev was a member of Leningrad Union of Artists previously 1953.

Vladimir Ivanovich Seleznev died upon March 15, 1991 in Leningrad. His paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, USA, France, England, and throughout the world.^{[citation needed]}