Galina Evangelista was born and raised in Russia. She studied art through her school years and graduated from Art Academy in the Estonia Republic of Soviet Russia. In 1977, she left St. Petersburg and immigrated to the United States. In New York, she attended Parsons School of Design and moved to Los Angeles to pursue her art career.
In Los Angeles, she worked as an art director for more than 17 years, at which time she opened her own art school in Hermosa Beach. She taught children and adults for more than seven years until she moved to Las Vegas, Nevada.
With a passion for portrait art, she specialized in oil painting, but is also accomplished in pastels, acrylics and watercolors. Her latest focus is on her murals and mosaic. Her style is realistic and evidenced in her academic renaissance approach.
She favors 16th to 19th century fine art, which includes styles from artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, Rembrandt, David, Leighton and Bouguereau. She has belonged to art societies and has many ribbons to her credit.
She currently lives in Las Vegas with her husband and their cat, Lola.
What Price Freedom is Galina’s first book.
Family Secrets
Some family secrets cannot be hidden. Billionaire, Michail Alexandrovich, owner of the Rennin Corporation in Russia, is a high-profile oil tycoon. He is a kind and compassionate man that is deeply in love with his wife and children. Two days after a spectacular birthday celebration held in his honor at one of the most glamorous hotels in Russia, his private jet, with him onboard, goes missing after encountering an unexpected snow storm while flying over a remote area in the hills of Siberia. Due to the extensive snowfall, rescue parties are unable to find the crash site and Michail is presumed to be dead. With billions of dollars at stake, one of his children plots to take the inheritance money all for himself, even if it means killing his entire family. Several stories of courage and survival intertwine with this shocking tale of greed, deception, love, sex, and murder. In the end, you will find out what really defines a man when his life and those he loves is at stake, regardless if he’s rich or poor.
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What Price Freedom
What Price Freedom is a poignant, bittersweet novel based on a true story of searing passion and haunting practicality as one woman is forced to abandon her beloved Leningrad to protect her half-Jewish son. She must come to grips with the pain and suffering their departure to freedom brings the family they left behind.
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Richy Knight: The Composition
Welcome to the magical and bizarre world of Richy Knight. Come inside and take a madcap journey to faraway lands, travel through space and time, and enter into other dimensions as Richy Knight encounters monstrous creatures, beautiful mummies, witches and warlocks. Richy is chosen for something unknown and far greater than being just a normal kid. He is given a magic crystal to help him along the way. Richy Knight, along with his close friends, and Aspar, the talking cat who has magical powers and a unique sense of humor, set out to find the Book of Magic and learn its hidden secrets. Galina Evangalista is a renowned artist who is famous for her exact replica paintings such as the Mona Lisa. Her style is realistic and evidenced in her academic renaissance approach. She favors 16th to 19th-century fine art, which includes styles from artists such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Botticelli, Rembrandt, David, Leighton, and Bouguereau. She has belonged to art societies and has many awards to her credit. Galina has expanded into the realm of literature and has authored six books. This book series include original artwork by Galina to illustrate the weird and whimsical world of Richy Knight.
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