Natalia Petrovna Navashina-Krandievskaya was born in Moscow in 1923. Her mother was the sculptor Nadezhda Vasilievna Krandievskaya and her father was the architect Pyotr Petrovich Faidysh. She studied at the Surikov State Art Instistute in Moscow where I.E. Grabar, D.K. Mochalski and A.A. Deineka were her leading professors. She graduated from the Surikov Institute in… (bio to be updated)