Elena Marttila
Elena Oskarovna Marttila (6 January 1923 – 25 June 2022) was a Russian painter of Finnish descent. Marttila is best known on her sketches of the Siege of Leningrad and the Road of Life, also found in the 2008 book Leningrad: State of Siege by the British historian Michael K. Jones and in the illustrated album Unofficial Art of the Second World War. Personal History and Memory (Kriga, 2020) by Ksenia Afonina.
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Elena Marttila
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- 1923 · Saint Petersburg.
- Died
- 2022 · Kotka.
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- Soviet Union · Russia
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- painter
- Education
- St. Petersburg art school by Rerikh N.K.
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Born at Saint Petersburg in 1923, died in Kotka in 2022.
Elena Marttila studied at St.
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- 1.The Cambridge Russian-Speaking Society. Elena Oskarovna Marttila (1923–2022) Memorial Page. 22 July 2022.
- 2.Afonina, Ksenia. Art and Life in Besieged Leningrad, the story of artist Elena Marttila. January 23, 2017.
- 3.Darwin College. Art and Endurance in the Siege of Leningrad. 2017.
- 4.Janhonen, Ulla. Piirityksestä pelastuneet. Helsingin Sanomat. 3 October 2021.
- 5.Afonina, Ksenia. Newly published illustrated album “Unofficial Art of the Second World War. Elena Marttila. Pavel Afonin. Sergey Babkov. Personal History and Memory” by Ksenia Afonina. 4 May 2021.
- 6.Janhonen, Ulla. Jelena Oskarovna Marttila 1923–2022. Helsingin Sanomat. 7 August 2022.
- 7.Wartime Art. Elena Marttila.
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