Mikhail Vassilievitch GUMENNYH, russian XXth century artist. He was born in 1925, in a village in Northern Kazakhstan, in the family of a village blacksmith. At an early age, the future artist was orphaned and ended up in an orphanage. Without special education, he worked as a decorative artist in the Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) Drama Theater. Traveled throughout the Soviet Union. He participated in many exhibitions. Since 1970, member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He died in 2014 For M. Gumennyh it is much more important to feel the calm, harsh nature of the North and its inhabitants. In his landscapes there are massive, eternally frozen rocks, and heavy, almost frozen waves.