Emilia Yakovlevna Pribylovskaya Russia, 1921 - ? Strategic meeting with Stalin (?) Oil on cardboard 49.5 x 71 cm Monogrammed lower right The artist Emilia Pribylovskaya was a painter and member of the Artists' Union of the USSR. She was born in Kiev into a family of renowned Kiev doctors. In 1939, she began her studies at the Architecture Faculty of the Kiev State Art Institute, where she was taught drawing and painting by I. V. Fomin, a friend and relative of Fetschin. In 1942, she moved to Samarkand, where she transferred to the painting faculty of the V. I. Surikov Institute. Her teachers included V. V. Pochitalov, I. E. Grabar, and S. V. Gerasimov. In 1958, she joined the Moscow branch of the USSR Artists' Union. She regularly participated in Moscow, republican, and union-wide exhibitions with large easel genre paintings. These paintings are now in many museums in Russia and former republican museums. Some of the paintings found their way into foreign collections. Many paintings were commissioned by the USSR Border Troops Directorate based on mission material and for the Far Eastern Border Fleet. The artist painted numerous portraits of famous horsemen and world-famous horses at the Cholpon-Ata stud farm on Lake Issyk-Kul and the Pyatigorsk Voskhod stud farm.