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Anastasia Gennadievna Nikolaeva (Berg) (23 April 1972) is a Russian artist and art educator, the laureate of the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the Russian Union of Artists, associate professor of the department of painting at Saint-Petersburg State Academy of painting, sculpture and architecture named after I.E.Repin.

Biography

Anastasia Nikolaeva (Berg) was born in Leningrad. In her childhood years she received beginners art education in Leningrad Secondary Art School. During early art practices teachers noticed her talent and diligence.

In 1990, according to the decision of the admissons Committee of the Saint-Petersburg Academy of painting, sculpture and architecture named after I.E. Repin Anastasia Nikolaeva was accepted without exams at the faculty of painting. From 1992 to 1996 she studied at the department of Mural painting under direction of academician Andrei Mylnikov. During her studying process from 1996 to 1999 received the scholarship of the President of Russian Federation. Anastasia was sent to study abroad in Berlin in the Universität der Künste in 1994 and 1995. In 1996 she completed her graduation work "First ceremonial meeting of the Russian Academy of Sciences".