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Article: Elena fled Russian chaos... now she's toast of art world; FEATURE: PAINTER SURVIVES MOSCOW TERROR TO BUILD NEW LIFE IN GLASGOW
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- July 12, 2002
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LYING terrified on the floor of her Moscow apartment, Elena
Kurenkova watched helplessly as the machine guns bullets tore into
the living room walls.
At that moment Elena made a promise to herself. If somehow she
managed to survive the chaos and anarchy Russia had collapsed into,
she would try and build a new life.
Yet Elena could never have dreamed that one day, thanks to a job
in Frasers in Buchanan Street, she would be hailed as one of the most
promising artists living in Scotland ... and then receive the same
accolade in her own country.
Nowadays, Elena's figurative work is receiving international