Léonid Alexandrovich Ouspensky (1902–1987) was a famous

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painter and art historian. He was born in 1902 on his father's estate in the village of Golaia Snova (now Golosnovka) in the north of the

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region in Russia and died in 1987. Ouspensky specialised in both the painting and study of icons. He studied and taught art in

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. One of his students was the

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ian Coptic icon painter and scholar Isaac Fanous.

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20th-century Russian painters Russian male painters Russian icon painters Russian art historians 1902 births 1987 deaths 20th-century Russian historians 20th-century Russian male artists {{Russia-painter-stub