Background
Leonid Aleksandrovich Uspensky was born on August 8, 1902, in the Golaya Snova village Zemlyansky district, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation. He was born in a family of nobles.
Leonid Aleksandrovich Uspensky was born on August 8, 1902, in the Golaya Snova village Zemlyansky district, Voronezh oblast, Russian Federation. He was born in a family of nobles.
Leonid Aleksandrovich graduated from the Zadonsk gymnasium. He studied and taught art in Paris. Leonid Aleksandrovich specialized in both the painting and the study of icons.
Leonid Aleksandrovich participated in the exhibition of Russian artists in the Paris gallery "Renaissance" (1932). Under the influence of the icon painter G.I. Krug gave preference to Orthodox icon painting, the technique of which was studied by P.A. Fedorova.
In 1934 Leonid Aleksandrovich joined the Icon Society, in 1939 - into the brotherhood of St. Photius. In 1935, together with G.I. Around painted the iconostasis of the Three Saints Compound in Paris, was engaged in the restoration of icons, wood carvings, metal-plastic.
Since 1944, for 40 years, Leonid Aleksandrovich lectured on icon painting at the Orthodox Institute of St. Dionysius, taught a course on iconology at the Theological and Pastoral Courses at the Western European Exarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate. In 1969 he gave a series of lectures at the Sorbonne and the Leningrad Theological Academy.