Member of Moscow Union of artists, Union of artists of Russia. Olga Kalashnikova was born in Moscow. In childhood summer months spent in the Russian village of Usol'e, near the ancient Pereslavl-Zalessky, Yaroslavl region, where the mother of the artist, Varvara Nikitichna Alexandrov. It was there, near dense forests, near clean and calm river Vexy formed aesthetic preferences of Olga. Viktor Egorov, Olga's father, artistically-gifted man, not a day spent without a sketchbook and paints. This took the baton and continues now Olga Kalashnikova. 1882 -1888. - studies at Pedagogical Institute, art-graphic faculty. After graduating with honors in 1988, she worked in Moscow regional art school of memory of 1905. Since 1988, the artist often worked in the House of creative Union of artists of Russia "Academic Dacha them.Repin" in the Tver region, using a unique ability to communicate with the outstanding masters of Russian art. Years of hard work, thoughtful and exacting attitude to the work has brought the artist not only to a deeper comprehension of figurative language of painting, but opened the way for the free expression of their own vision of the world. The main theme of the master's steel Russian nature, Russian life. And large canvases and smaller works filled with light, poetic harmony, subtle sense of Light. They like the wide open doors of the busy activity of the capital on the vast expanses of the homeland, which already sounded or muffled silence of the bells, where he lives, enjoys and suffers. Since 1997 began a new phase in the work of Olga Kalashnikova, this time associated with the development of "unexpected" for women theme - in the footsteps of the Swiss campaign of the Russian army under the command of A. V. Suvorov of 1799. There were trips to the hill country, assembled a large and valuable material from the field of battle. Switzerland as seen through the eyes of a modern Russian man, and in the works shown in its various manifestations. The artist has held several exhibitions in Switzerland, representing Russian art in the year of the anniversary celebration of the 200th anniversary of Suvorov through the Alps. Most fully this page her work is represented in the magazine "soldiers of Russia" №3, 2002. The author - Olga Kalashnikova. Artist and accurate, and inspired lyrical. That is why the titles of many works become the lines of the poem: "walking through the forests fall...", "October has arrived, And as the white Archangel Church rose above the sinful earth", "the Grand former is like breathing in a dream", "Lay down the gloomy shadows of the October early evening." But in General the motto of the art of Olga Kalashnikova can be a line of poetry by her favorite poet Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev: "And what Dellosa for centuries, is not exhausted". 1993 Olga Kalashnikov, a member of the Moscow Union of artists, Union of artists of Russia in 1987-1995 he was a part of the Association of realist artists "moskvoreche." The artist - participant of Moscow, Republican and group exhibitions. Personal exhibitions took place in 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2006 (Moscow, the White House), 2006 (USA, North Carolina). The artist's works are represented in private collections and galleries of Russia, Austria, England, China, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, USA, Japan and other countries.
