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Anna Kalinina – artist and iconographer (biography). Anna Kalinina is a Russian iconographer whose work can be found in churches in Russia, France, Australia and the United States. She is a trained artist, restorer and iconographer who paints individual icons, as well as complete sets of icons for the iconostasis (the name for a rood screen in the Eastern Orthodox Christian churches). Career as Iconographer Anna participated in the restoration of the Danilov Monastery in Moscow Russian in 1986-1990. Daniolov Monastery was the first monastery re-opened during the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church after the Soviet persecution. She went on to restore icons and paint new icons in numerous churches and monasteries during the revival of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1990’s through today. Her work can be found in Optina monastery (Kozelsk), the iconostasis in the Trinity Memorial Cathedral in Moscow (dedicated to the Millennium of Christianity in Russia), the Church of St. Ignatius in Damascus, the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. Nicholas in New York to name but a few. Education and Personal Life Anna’s grandmother, Olga Tourzhnaksaya, who had studied in the Paris Academy of Art gave Anna her first drawing lessons. Anna graduated from the Art Elementary School #1 in Moscow in 1983 and went on the the Stroganov Art Lyceum (after high school) where she graduated in 1986. Finally Anna studied art and restoration from the Stroganov Art Institute and received a degree in restoration from the Igor Grabar Restoration Centre. At the same time, Anna studied iconography as an apprentice to iconographers. Anna Kalinina (nee Belianova) was born in Moscow in the 1960’s, the daughter of Professor Dr. Vsevolod Zherebin and Dr. Irina Belianova. Anna married Leonid Kalinin in 1993 and they have 3 children.