1913 - 1994
Taisa Kirillovna Afonina was born in Nikovaev, Ukraine.  She wa painter and watercolorist, lived and worked in Leningrad, was regarded as one of the brightest representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.  In 1931 Taisia Afonina graduated from nine-year school in city Taganrog, and came to Leningrad to obtain art education.

In 1946 Afonina graduated from the Repin Institute of Arts in Igor Grabar personal Art Studio of monumental painting. Her graduate work was a historical painting named "Girls of Donbass", dedicated to the memory and heroism members of Anti-Fascist underground.

Taisa Afonina was an advanced pupil, and her instructors included Mikhail Bernshtein, Victor Oreshnikov, and Pavel Naumov.  

Beginning in 1947, Afonina participated in public art exhibitions. She was a Member of LCRAU since 1946.  

Since the beginning of 1950s she was constantly involved in art exhibitions of Leningrad artists. She painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits, and genre compositions. She worked in oil painting and watercolors and was most famous as a master of landscape and still-life painting. In 1946 Taisia Afonina was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists.

Taisia Kirillovna Afonina died on April 19, 1994, in Saint Petersburg. Her paintings reside in Art museums and private collections in Russia, Finland, USA, England, France, and others.

Honors include:
Still Life paintings, 1940 to 1990, Exhibited at the Leningrad School of Art  
Exhibition Catalogue of St. Petersburg, 1997  
Exhibition Catlogue:  L'Ecole de St. Petersburg Drouot Richelieu Catalog, Paris, 1994