Biography

For Daniil Volkov, painting is almost a second nature. Coming from a long line of artistic ancestry going back to the court of Imperial Russia, Daniil was born in Yalta in 1974 to famous Crimean painters Viktor Volkov and Elena Rousanova. He knew from an early age that the only way for him to be was to be an artist.

He graduated from The Crimean Art School of N.S. Samokish in 1994, a well-known and respected school in the Soviet times. He continued to study at the Moscow State University of Print, where he gained significant knowledge on graphics and composition.

Volkov held his first exhibition in Yalta in 1995. Since then, he has gained acclaim as one of the top Crimean landscape artists, his paintings inspired by the region’s beauty.

Volkov is the member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine (NUAU) since 2010. He lives and works in Yalta.