Skorikova Elizabeth (1950)

Elizabeth Skorikova’s great-grandfather, Nikolai Dmitrievich Seliverstov (1830–1890), was a prominent statesman in the Russian Empire, Penza Governor in 1867–1872, the largest philanthropist, a veteran of the Crimean War (1853–1856), a philanthropist, founder of the Penza Art Gallery and the Penza Art schools.

The last, the most famous educational institution in Russia, where Kuban artists studied in the Soviet years, was opened thanks to the donation of N. D. Seliverstov in the amount of 300 thousand rubles. A large collection of antiques, paintings and books were also donated to Penza. The collection of books of the philanthropist, now kept in the library named after Lermontov in Penza, was made up of rare copies. The gift of N.D. Seliverstov has a particular value - it is a pictorial collection that was collected purposefully, with great knowledge and taste. It was presented Italian painting of the XVII century, works of the French school of the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, a collection of Barbizon, small Dutch paintings, Russian masters. All of them - the pride of the current collection of the Penza art gallery. Interestingly, the advisor and executor N.D. Seliverstov was his close friend - the Russian geographer, statistician, botanist, statesman and public figure Petr Petrovich Semenov-Tyan-Shansky (1827-1914), who played the main role in the execution of the testament of a friend killed in Paris by a Polish socialist.

Elizabeth Yurievna's grandmother came from a famous noble family of Adamovich, and was a sculptor. Once a statuette in the form of a dog figure, such a gray ceramic dog, was popular, these dogs very quickly flew across the country. The author of these figures was Adamovich.

Father - Yuri Ivanovich Skorikov, founder of the dynasty of painters.

Elizaveta Yurievna Skorikova is one of the last portrait painters of the old school, she lives and works in St. Petersburg and Goryachiy Klyuch of the Krasnodar Territory. She graduated from the picturesque faculty of the Institute I.E. Repin (Academy of Arts) in the workshop of prof. Yu.M. Neprintseva (1977), received her degree by presenting a series of portraits. After graduating from the Academy, she painted a full-size group of 23 people, a portrait of “Baltic Veterans”, measuring 2x3 meters, which is now in the Museum of the Baltic Fleet in Tallinn, Estonia.

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia (1985), full member (2011), Professor of the Academy of Russian Literature and Fine Arts. G.R. Derzhavina (2015), cavalier lady of the Distinction Badge in memory of the XV anniversary of the Society "Konstantinovsky Leisure" (2012), was awarded the Order of Catherine the Great.

For several years she worked in her father’s homeland in Nalchik, where she created a series of portraits of cultural figures in Kabardino-Balkaria. These portraits are on permanent display at the Kabarda Art Museum.

Elizaveta Yurievna also created portrait galleries in Saratov, Pskov and Tikhoretsk, Krasnodar Territory.

In 1996, she together with the artist S.V. Morozov painted a ceremonial portrait of Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich (K.R.), which is located in the branch of the Russian Museum.

Elizaveta Skorikova and Sergey Morozov devote a significant part of their work to ballet. The result of their work on the portraits of the soloists of the Yuri Grigorovich Ballet Theater was a series of works that are now in the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. F. Kovalenko, in the foyer of the Winter Theater and the house-museum of the playwright, ballet historian, art historian and founder of the Sochi Arboretum Park Sergei Khudekov.

The artist's works are in the collections of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the Museum of the Baltic Fleet in Estonia and the Krasnodar Art Museum. F. A. Kovalenko, as well as in private collections in Russia, the USA, France, England, Germany and other countries.