Lake Baikal

Yadviha Oleksandrivna Matsiievska was a Soviet Ukrainian artist. She was born on April 17, 1916 in St. Petersburg. She studied at the art studio at the Palace of Culture on Vasilyevsky Island, the Leningrad Academy of Arts, and the Kyiv Art Institute (1945-1950). Her teachers by specialty were H. Svetlitskyi and I. Shtilman. Matsiievska worked in the genres of lyrical and industrial landscape. She took creative trips to Ukraine, Karelia, Baikal, Central Asia, Amur Region, Kamchatka, Sakhalin, and Yakutia. Her works combine monumentality, romanticism and panoramic solutions of landscape compositions. A member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, she participated in exhibitions starting in 1949. The artist's works are kept in state and private collections in Ukraine and abroad. Matsiievska lived and worked in Kyiv and died in 1996.