Alexander
Samuilovich Charon

He was born in Odessa. Began drawing at 2 years. In the late 1960s, he studied at the famous Odessa artist O. Freidin. Some time worked as a restorer and painter in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. In 1988 emigrated to USA, settled in San Francisco, where he opened his own school of painting. A Theology teacher of University at the University of Berkeley (California, USA). Exhibitions of the artist took place in the Vatican, Vienna, Athens, Tokyo, Paris, Odessa, San Francisco, Baltimore, etc., By order of Pope John Paul 11 made a number of icons, which are now in the collection of the Vatican. Works are kept in numerous private collections, in particular in the collection of the film Paramaunt Pictures and meeting al Gore (USA). Two paintings, written by the author at the age of 13 and 14, are in the collection of the Georges Pompidou Museum in Paris. Awarded the Vladimir Cross for his great contribution to the iconography. He is President of the fine arts of the United States.