Goncharova Barrett, Valeria

Valeria Goncharova was born and raised in Eastern Europe surrounded by a family of artists during an unlikely time for creative expression. Under the Soviet regime during a stagnant era, her parents managed to provide a progressive cradle of arts and culture for Valeria and her brother. Her mother is a well-known Eastern European artist and is the great granddaughter of Polish Baron Faust von Leczycki of Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the 17th century. Her father's great grandfather was a distant relative to the famous Russian aristocratic beauty, Natalya Nikolaevna Goncharova, who was the wi...