Geliy Korzhev

Geliy Mikhailovich Korzhev (7 July 1925 – 27 August 2012) was a Russian painter. The artist studied at Moscow State Art School from 1939 to 1944 under V. V. Pochitalov, M. V. Dobroserdov, and A. O. Barshch. From 1944 to 1950 he studied at the Moscow State Art Institute under S. V. Gerasimov and V. V. Pochitalov. A painter in Soviet approved style of Socialist Realism, he continued to be active after the dissolution of the Soviet Union and remained a supporter of Communism.