Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky

Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky (18 January 1903 - 22 November 1999), also known as Zoia Krukovskaya Lagerkrans, was a Russian-Swedish artist known for landscapes and portraits painted against a gold background. She signed her paintings simply Zoia.

Life She was born Zoia Korvin-Krukovsky in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of Colonel Krukovsky and Héléne Inkina. She was educated at the Smolny Institute. After the Russian Revolution, the family moved to Moscow, where she studied at the Moscow Academy of Art with Wassily Kandinsky. She also studied in Paris for five years (1925–30), both at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and privately with Fernand Léger and Tsuguharu Foujita.

In 1921, Zoia met the Swedish communist politician Karl Kilbom when he was part of a delegation at the Profintern congress held in Moscow.