Lyudmyla Milyayeva

Lyudmyla Semenivna Milyayeva (; 13 November 1925 – 29 October 2022) was a Ukrainian art historian and university teacher. She was a research fellow from 1949 to 1962 and was the head of the department of pre-rev. of art of the Kyiv State Museum of Ukrainian Fine Arts (today the National Art Museum of Ukraine) between 1964 and 1966. Milyayeva worked as a senior lecturer, then an associate professor and finally a professor of the Department of History and Theory of Art at the National Academy of Visual Arts and Architecture. She was the author or co-author of more than 200 scientific works. Milyayeva was the recipient of the Merited Artist of Ukraine, the Order of Merit, Third Class and the Order of Princess Olga, Third Class.

Early life and education Milyayeva was born on a street in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 13 November 1925. and her mother was the surgical nurse Irina Fedorovna Milyaeva. Milyayeva was an only child and survived the Holodomor famine that lasted from 1932 to 1933. Her candidate's thesis was on Wall Painting of Potelych and the doctorate thesis was on Drohobych Paintings and Problems of the Development of Ukrainian Art of the 16th - Early 18th Centuries. Milyayeva graduated in 1950 and received a Doctor of Art History in 1988.

Career Between 1949 and 1962, she was a research fellow after applying for the job before she completed her university diploma. with such subjects as research into the history of icon painting in Ukrainian fine art. This included the books K.O. Trutovsky (1955), Potelich's Paintings (1969; 1971 - Russian), Ukrainian Art of the 14th - First Half of the 17th Centuru (1963, co-author), Ukrainian Medieval Painting (co-author in 1976), The Ukrainian Icon 11th-18th Centuries. From Byzantium to Baroque (1996; English, German, French); Ease Painting (book History of Ukrainian Art, co-authored volume 1 in 1966), Ukrainian Art of the Late 13th - First Half of the 18th Century, Ukrainian Art of the First Half of the 17th-18th Century (book History of the Art of the Peoples of the USSR, volume 3 in 1974 and later volume 4 in 1976). Milyayeva died in Kyiv on 29 October 2022.