Nina Shapkina-Korchuganova was dressed in Turkmenistan in a family repressed by the mother of Vera Fedorovna Shapkina (nee Zagorodnikova), Nina's father - Shapkin Boris Dmitrievich came from a merchant family. His father Shapkin Dmitry Ivanovich to the beginning of the revolution was a merchant of the 2 guilds, owned shares of the joint-stock company of brothers Nobel, Dmitry Ivanovich's older brother served in her Majesty's Life Guards, and during the civil war served with Ataman Semyonov.
Nina Shapkin-Korchuganova - a student of Andrei Vladimirovich Vasnetsov, lives and works in Moscow
A.V. Vasnetsov, in an interview in the Moscow News newspaper in February 1989, wrote about Nina: “Young people are terribly different. We like simplified solutions. Now young people are considered to be passionate about avant-garde. But this is only part of the truth ... There are young neorealists — Nina Shapkina, she has very interesting works, the modernized Daumier is such, only a little cubized, or something "
Works are holed: in the State Russian Museum (St Petersburg), the Museum of Modern Art (MOMMA), the Samara Museum of Fine Arts, the Vologda Regional Art Gallery, the Art Museum of Yaroslavl, the Ulyanovsk Art Museum, the New Jerusalem Museum (Istra), the Museum Rachmaninov and in Azerbaijan art. the museum