Victor Khromin, born in 1948, graduated from the well-known Serov Art High School in Leningrad. He belongs to the followers of the Analytical school which was founded at the beginning of the 20th century by Pavel Filonov (1883 - 1941) and contrasted with Malevitch's Suprematism. Khromin's paintings show the national character of the Russian people. The heads of people, cows and horses dominate; conversely Russian farmsteads and the bulbous spires of Orthodox churches are depicted in his paintings in a quasi-Gothic style.