known to have created more than five thousand works over the course of his long creative life. His work demonstrates a "complex evolution" of styles. The influence of Paul Cezanne was "clearly visible" in Konchalovsky's paintings in the pre-WWI period. Heralded as a member of Russia's avante guard, post war he became a Member of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Fine Arts and a People's Artist of the R.S.F.S.R. His paintings are considered to have made a significant contribution to "the development of Soviet realistic art." Legacy Many of his descendants remained active in the world of art. His son Mikhail Petrovich Konchalovsky (b. 1906) was a notable painter. His daughter Natalia Konchalovskaya (1903–1988) was a notable children's writer and her husband Sergey Mikhalkov a notable poet, the author of children's poetry and two versions of the State Anthem of the Soviet Union and the present National anthem of Russia. They have two sons: Andrei Konchalovsky, a film writer, director and a painter (whose son Egor is also a notable film director) and Nikita Mikhalkov, also a movie director who, in 1994, won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar for his film Burnt by the Sun. In 2006, his heirs established the Petr Konchalovsky Foundation, a non-commercial beneficial organization created to consolidate Konchalovsky's legacy. In addition to organizing exhibitions and presentations of Konchalovsky's artworks, the foundation is dedicated to conservation and authentication of the artist's work. Galleries References External links Official Website of the Petr Konchalovsky Foundation Biography and art of Konchalovsky Art of Konchalovsky Art of Konchalovsky 1876 births 1956 deaths Painters from the Russian Empire People from Sloviansk People from Izyumsky Uyezd Académie Julian alumni Full Members of the USSR Academy of Arts Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Academic staff of Vkhutemas People's Artists of the RSFSR (visual arts) Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Mikhalkov family Russian Futurist painters Socialist realist artists Russian people of Ukrainian descent Soviet painters Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery