{{Infobox person | name = Lev Zbarsky | image =Lev Zbarsky.jpg | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Felix-Lev Borisovich Zbarsky | birth_date = 12 November 1931 | birth_place = Moscow, Soviet Union | death_date = {{death date and age|2016|2|22|1931|11|df=y}} | death_place = New York City, United States | other_names = | occupation = Painter<ref>[http://www.animator.ru/db/index.phtml?p=show_person&pid=1056 Российская анимация в буквах и фигурах]</ref>
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'''Felix-Lev Borisovich Zbarsky''' ({{langx|ru|Феликс-Лев Борисович Збарский}}; 12 November 1931 – 22 February 2016) was a Soviet Jewish painter. He was born in Moscow, the son of a biochemist {{Interlanguage link multi|Boris Zbarsky|ru|3=Збарский, Борис Ильич}}.<ref>[http://www.ng.ru/culture/2005-11-17/7_ballet.html Балетные грезы в юбилейном марафоне]</ref> Biochemist Ilya Zbarsky was his brother,<ref name="BP">Ilya Zbarsky. Object № 1. — Moscow: Vagrius, 2000. — P. 177.</ref> and he was the first husband of the actress Lyudmila Maksakova.<ref>[http://sobesednik.ru/skandaly/20150819-v-ssha-umiraet-ot-raka-byvshiy-muzh-lyudmily-maksakovoy В США умирает от рака бывший муж Людмилы Максаковой | Собеседник.ру<!-- Заголовок добавлен ботом -->]</ref><ref name="Збарский">{{Cite web |url=http://poliksal.ru/show-biznes/9705-vnuki-lyudmily-maksakovoy-pohoronili-rodnogo-deda-v-ssha.html |title=Внуки Людмилы Максаковой похоронили родного деда в США |access-date=2016-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305225627/http://poliksal.ru/show-biznes/9705-vnuki-lyudmily-maksakovoy-pohoronili-rodnogo-deda-v-ssha.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was also a husband of the Soviet model Regina Zbarskaya.
== Biography == Lev Zbarsky was the first son of the second marriage of Boris Ilyich Zbarsky with Evgenia Perelman. Lev was born in Moscow in November 1931. The father decided to call his son the name of the man he most respected. Since there were two men he respected most, Lev Karpov and Felix Dzerzhinsky, the son was given a double name Felix-Lev.<ref name="BP"/>
In 1972, Lev Zbarsky emigrated to Israel, and from there he moved to the United States. He died in New York from lung cancer in 2016.<ref name="Збарский">{{Cite web |url=http://poliksal.ru/show-biznes/9705-vnuki-lyudmily-maksakovoy-pohoronili-rodnogo-deda-v-ssha.html |title=Внуки Людмилы Максаковой похоронили родного деда в США |access-date=2016-02-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305225627/http://poliksal.ru/show-biznes/9705-vnuki-lyudmily-maksakovoy-pohoronili-rodnogo-deda-v-ssha.html |archive-date=2016-03-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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==External links== * [http://www.lebed.com/2006/art4577.htm Роман с Самоваром] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070702200434/http://www.mk.ru/blogs/idmk/2006/02/01/Atmosphere/68633/ Тело государственной важности] {{authority control}}{{Russia-painter-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zbarsky, Lev}} Category:1931 births Category:2016 deaths Category:Artists from Moscow Category:Soviet painters Category:Deaths from cancer in New York (state) Category:Soviet emigrants to Israel Category:Israeli emigrants to the United States Category:Russian Jews Category:Soviet Jews