In 1973 Vasily Shulzhenko graduated from the Moscow University of Printing Arts. From 1978 he has been working in figure painting. Now he is working in grotesque realism. In 2012 he won the golden medal of Russian Academy of Art and the diploma of the 1st degree for «relevance in academic painting».

Creativity of Vasily Shulzhenko is an encyclopedia of thoughts about Russia and humanity with its ancient memories about instincts that do not want to become modern. Shulzhenko give us to know that we are at the beginning of the real civilization. He is epic and calm, he do not intervene in current politics, do not write a satire on the topic of the day.

That understanding of human’s nature which goes out of his works is based...