Valentin Sidorov is an artist who vividly expresses the national Russian character. His work is oriented toward Russia and all of the deep threads associated with it. It goes beyond the boundaries of only touching upon subjects having to do with the village, rising up to major universal resonance. A master of the "exalted landscape", over the course of his long career, Sidorov has created an extraordinary collection of landscapes, a unique chronicle of the life of nature, its eternal cycle, and its first-born and inextricable connection with man.

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Sidorov, Valentin Mikhailovich (Born 1928, Sorokopenie, Tver Gubernia)
Painter, teacher. Studied at an art studio of the Moscow Palace of Pioneers (1940–1942), Moscow Secondary School of Art (1943–1948), Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1948–1952) and the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1952–1954). Contributed to exhibition (from 1951). Taught at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (from 1996). Professor (1996). People’s Artist of the USSR (1988). Winner of the Ilya Repin State Prize (1974), State Prize of the USSR (1984), State Prize of Russia (1997). Awarded a silver medal of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1972), gold medal of the Academy of Arts of Russia (1996), Order "For Merits for the Fatherland" Grade III (2008) and Grade IV (2003).