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Galina Vasilievna Krichevskaya-Linde

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Born on January 7, 1918, in Kyiv, passed away on April 4, 2006, in Caracas, Venezuela. She came from the artistic dynasty of Krichevskys. She was the daughter of Vasily Grigorievich Krichevsky and Evgenia Mikhailovna Shcherbakovskaya, and had half-brothers Nikolai and Vasily Krichevskys. She received a home education and studied several foreign languages. In 1935 and 1939, she studied at the Kyiv State Art Institute. In 1937, she married engineer-geologist Ivan Ivanovich Linde.

During the Great Patriotic War, she lived in occupied Kyiv, working in the Department of Agriculture at the Kyiv Agronomic Institute. In 1943, she participated in an art exhibition at the Historical Museum. In 1944, she moved to France with her parents via Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Germany.

In 1948, she moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where her husband found work. That same year, her parents joined her. In 1961 and 1981, she worked at the U.S. Embassy as an assistant agricultural attaché. She continued to paint and create tapestries. She is the author of the painting of the Holy Virgin in the Ukrainian church of the Protection of the Mother of God in Caracas, created in 1952. She participated in the Official Salon of Venezuelan Art at the National Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas in 1950 and 1959, as well as in other local exhibitions. After her father's death, she preserved his artistic legacy and in 2003 transferred several hundred of his works to museums in Ukraine. She is buried in the city cemetery in Caracas.

She had three children: Irma, who passed away in 1974; Miroslava and Oksana Ivanovna Linde De Ochoa, born in 1948 in Caracas, a chemist and amateur artist who has participated in group exhibitions in Venezuela since 1968; Vasily Ivanovich Linde-Krichevsky, born in 1953 in Caracas, a ceramic artist who has lived in the USA since 1989, participates in ceramic and craft exhibitions, organizes art events, and since 2009 has actively collaborated with the National Museum-Reserve of Ukrainian Pottery in Opishne, Poltava region, Ukraine.

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