Sokolova Margarita Yakovlevna
1946, Leningrad — 2007, St Petersburg
Graphic, applied artist
Studied at secondary school No. 190 affiliated with Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1961– 1964); Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1964–1969) in the Department of Artistic Ceramics and Glass. Exhibited from 1989. Member of the Leningrad Branch of the RSFSR Union of Artists (1989). Worked as an artist in the publishing houses Sovetskii pisatel (Soviet Writer) and Lenizdat. Taught at Leningrad Institute of Applied Arts (1970s), Alexandrino Children’s Art School (1970–2007). Main collections: All-Russian Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Museum (Moscow), Museum of Applied Arts of St Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (both St Petersburg), Mikhailovskoe State Museum- Reserve of A. S. Pushkin (Pskov Region).

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