1925-2012

He was born in the family of architect Mikhail Korzhev. He studied at the Surikov Moscow Art Institute (1944-1950) under S. V. Gerasimov. He taught at the Moscow Higher School of Art and Industry (now the Russian State University of Art and Industry named after S. G. Stroganov). Professor (1966). Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. First Secretary of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR (1968-1975). Full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR — Russian Academy of Arts (since 1970; corresponding member since 1962). People's Artist of the USSR (1979). Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1987) and the I. E. Repin State Prize of the RSFSR (1966). Soviet and Russian painter, proponent of the "harsh style", one of the main Moscow artists of the second half of the twentieth century.