Early Life and Artistic Foundations Inna Skliarevskaia, born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, in 1962, embarked on her artistic journey at a young age, demonstrating an innate talent for drawing that led her to the Secondary Art School of the Repin Institute. This formative period provided her with a rigorous classical training—a foundation upon which she would later build her distinctive and freely figurative style. The e…