Her grandfather, the Russian Impressionist painter Leonid Pasternak, was a friend of Tolstoy's and illustrator or the novel Resurrection and several of Tolstoy's other works.
Leonid Brezhnev | Boris Pasternak | Leonid Kuchma | Leonid Kravchuk | Leon Pasternak | Leonid Gaidai | Leonid Serebrennikov | Leonid Kuravlyov | Leonid Krasin | Leonid Dushkin | Leonid Andreyev | Leonid Sobinov | Leonid Popov | Leonid Plyushch | Leonid Pasternak | Leonid Korchmar | Simon Pasternak | Lydia Pasternak Slater | Leonid Yatsenko | Leonid Yakubovich | Leonid Vysheslavsky | Leonid Volodarskiy | Leonid Vaseršteĭn | Leonid Utyosov | Leonid Tălmaci | Leonid Sokov | Leonid Skirko | Leonid Reiman | Leonid Pastur | Leonid Parfyonov |
He studied with his father and at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the faculty of Architecture under Abram Arkhipov, Nikolai Kasatkin, Leonid Pasternak, and at studio of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin.