Mikhail Yuryevich Kugach: A Legacy of Russian Landscape Painting Mikhail Yuryevich Kugach (born January 2, 1939) stands as a pivotal figure in the enduring tradition of Russian landscape painting—a lineage tracing back to his father, Yuri Petrovich Kugach, a celebrated People’s Artist of the USSR. Growing up amidst the artistic fervor of Moscow during the formative years of Soviet art, Kugach absorbed the ethos of realism championed b…