Maxim Gennadievich Ponurovsky. Born in 1979. Graduated from the St. Petersburg Academic Lyceum named after B.V. Ioganson and the St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin ("Workshop" of Professor A.A. Mylnikov). The first exhibition took place in 2007. The artist works in the style of realism. His works are held in private collections in Russia, Germany, the UAE, the USA, and Finland.