Born in Bortnoe, Ryazan reg., 1921.  Studied at 1905 ART COLLEGE 1937-41; REPIN INSTITUTE 1946-52.  Active in Leningrad.  Began exhibiting 1952.  Important shows include 'All-Union Art Exhibition'. Moscow, 1952; 'All-Union Art Exhibition', Moscow, 1955; 'SOVIET RUSSIA', Moscow, 1960.   Laureate of the State Prize of Repin.   Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. St. Petersburg government award in field of literature, art, and architecture.  Museum and Private Art Collections.

Dmitri Vasilievich Belyaev was born November 18, 1921 in the Village Bortnoe, Rybnovskij District of the Ryazan Province,  18 kilometers from Ryazan City.  

Mr. Belyaev was a Russian and Soviet painter, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg (formerly Leningrad).  He was an Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists, and was regarded as one of esteemed representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting.

In 1929, after the death of his mother, Mr. Belyaev moved to Moscow together with his father and his siblings. In Moscow he first studied in a children's art studio, then at the Moscow Art School of the Memory of Revolution of 1905.

Just after his last course in the Moscow Art School, he was drafted into the Red Army. A Member of the Great Patriotic War, he fought in the Southwestern Front and 2nd Ukrainian Front as a tank operator. He has wounded, and decorated with military awards.

In 1952 Mr. Belyaev graduated from the Department of Painting of the Repin Institute of Arts, where he studied under Boris Ioganson, Genrikh Pavlovsky, Alexander Zaytsev, Semion Abugov. His graduate work was a genre picture entitled "For Peace!"

In 1952 Mr. Belyaev began participating in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre and historical compositions, landscapes, and still lifes. Also In 1952, he was admitted to the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists. In 1998 he was awarded the honorary title of the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation.

In 2004 Dmitri Belyaev was awarded the Prize of the St. Petersburg government in the field of literature, art and architecture for his paintings of recent years. In 2005 he was named a Laureate of the State Prize of Repin. He was a full member of Peter's Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dmitri Vasilievich Belyaev died in Saint Petersburg on September 25, 2007 at eighty-six years of age. His paintings reside in Russian museums, and private art collections in Russia, Finland, the U.S.A, Japan, Germany, France, and other countries.

Vail Fine Art Gallery, Inc. is proud to represent Mr. Belyaev as an important and collectible Russian Master Impressionist.

References

1.    Directory of Members of the Union of Artists of USSR. Vol. 1. - Moscow: Soviet artist, 1979. P.116.
2.    Sergei V. Ivanov. Unknown Socialist Realism. The Leningrad School. Saint Petersburg, NP-Print Edition, 2007. P.9, 389, 393, 395, 397—401, 403—407, 445.