Kseniya Nikolaevna Uspenskaya-Kologrivova was born in 1922 in Voronezh, Russia. Her father was Nikolai Alekseevich Uspensky, a professor at the K.D. Glinka Voronezh Agricultural College. Nikolai Uspensky is a well-known selectionist, the USSR State Prize laureate, and was multiply rewarded by the Soviet government in addition to being a deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet of many convocations.Kseniya Uspenskaya studied in the studios at the Palace of Pioneers in Voronezh from 1939 to 1941, and at the Moscow Institute of the Applied and Decorative Art from 1944 to 1949. She became a member of the Artists’ Union of the USSR in 1956. She has participated in almost all zonal and republican exhibitions since 1956, including the All-Union Art Exhibition in Moscow in that same year.Uspenskaya is the Kubanev Prize laureate. Her name is entered in the “Honor Book” of the city of Voronezh. She has also been involved in public work and was a deputy of the Regional Soviet of three convocations in a row. She is a senior lecturer in the field of architecture and worked in the architectural division of the land surveying faculty of the K.D. Glinka Voronezh Agricultural College. Her painting of her father, “Portrait of the Professor Uspensky”, is kept along with a large quantity of her works in the Kramskoi Voronezh State Art Museum. She is also famous for her portraits and figurative paintings of children. Her painting “Did not take for fishing” was purchased by the central purchase commission and passed to the Tretyakov State Gallery in Moscow. The painting was reproduced in the school text-book in the Russian language. All school-children of Soviet Union wrote compositions based on the painting.Uspenskaya was invited by the Galina Maxwell Gallery in London and worked in Great Britain in 1991. Her works are in the National Gallery in London.She was married to the artist Vasili Krivoruchko until his death in 1994. The two of them covered much ground, presenting and selling their works to galleries and collectors all over the world. Uspenskaya now lives and works in Voronezh.