Kim Slavin

Kim Nikolaevich Slavin (Славин Ким Николаевич; February 25, 1928, in Leningrad, USSR — February 14, 1991, in Leningrad, USSR) was a Soviet Russian painter, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, who lived and worked in Leningrad. Kim Slavin regarded as one of representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape paintings. For over forty years, Slavin kept a detailed diary, which was published after his death by his wife, Nina Slavina, a famous painter on porcelain.