Lyudmila Georgievna Kiseleva

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Lyudmila Georgievna Kiseleva – a Soviet and Russian artist, writer, and philanthropist. She was born with a disability diagnosed as "myopathy" (progressive degeneration of muscle tissue leading to complete immobility). She received her school education at home. In 1959 she enrolled in the Moscow "State Correspondence People's University of Arts" in the Faculty of Drawing and Painting. She graduated in 1964.   

In 1965 her first solo exhibition took place in her native town of Borovsk, consisting of study drawings. From 1964 and for many years she collaborated with newspaper editorial offices: the local "Za kommunizm" ("For Communism"), then "Borovskie izvestiya" ("Borovsk News"), the regional and oblast papers "Znamya" ("Banner"), "Molodoy leninets" ("Young Leninist"), "Magadansky komsomolec" ("Magadan Komsomolets"), and the central papers "Pravda" and "Sovetskaya kultura".   

In 1978 she was a laureate of the Kaluga Regional Committee VLKSM prize. She was a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation (until 1992 a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR), a member of the Union of Russian Writers, and a member of the Union of Journalists of the Russian Federation. She wrote around ten books. For more than ten years she served as director of the social organization she founded, "Delo Obshchego Miloserdia – Children-Orphans and the Disabled." She was one of the active initiators of the preservation and revival of Borovsk churches. Laureate of the international "Profession – Life" prize, an honorary citizen of the town of Borovsk. She was awarded the Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II class. Lyudmila Georgievna Kiseleva passed away on 30 January 2021.