Girls. Neskuchnoye

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Serebriakova (Russian: Зинаида Евгеньевна Серебрякова; née Lansere [Лансере]; 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1884 – 19 September 1967) was a Russian painter during the Modernist period.

Zinaida Yevgenyevna Lansere was born on 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1884 on the estate of Neskuchnoye near Kharkov in the Russian Empire. Her father, Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Lansere (1848–1886), was a sculptor. Her mother, Yekaterina Lansere, was a painter and came from the artistic Benois family. Her grandfather, Nicholas Benois, was a prominent architect, chairman of the Society of Architects and member of the Russian Academy of Science.

Her uncle, Alexandre Benois, was a painter, founder of the Mir iskusstva art group. One of Zinaida's brothers, Nikolay Lanceray, was an architect, and her other brother, Yevgeny Lanceray, had an important place in Russian and Soviet art as a master of monumental painting and graphic art. The English actor and writer Peter Ustinov was also related to her.

Her father died in 1886. Following this, Zinaida's mother took her and the rest of the children to the Benois household in Saint Petersburg.