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Valerian Formozov was born in 1921 into the family of a priest in the village of Tepelevo, in Russia's Gorky region. In 1937 he entered the Art School of Gorky. He became a Red Army soldier in 1940, and served in the Great Patriotic War. In 1946, he was awarded the Patriotic War Order for his valor and received a number of medals.
Upon his release from the army, he entered the Latvian Art Academy in Riga where he studied under Edward Kalnynsh and Jan Tilberg. He graduat (showing 500 of 4261 characters). |
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