Biography

Georgy (Gustav) Konstantinovich Guryanov (Russian: Георгий (Гу́став) Константи́нович Гурья́нов; 27 February 1961 – 20 July 2013) was a Soviet and Russian musician and artist.

From 1984 to 1990, Guryanov was the drummer, arranger, and backing vocalist in Kino and participant in Sergey Kuryokhin's Pop Mechanics. From 1990 to 2013, Guryanov worked as an artist. From 1993, he was an honorary professor at the New Academy of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей Новой академии изящных искусств) in Saint Petersburg. In the 1990s and 2000s, Guryanov was considered a celebrity in Saint Petersburg and a famous Russian dandy. Georgy Guryanov was born on 27 February 1961 in the maternity hospital of the Petrogradsky District, Leningrad to Konstantin Fedorovich (6 July 1914 - 26 October 1993) and Margarita Vikentievna (22 December 1924 - 9 February 2013), both geologists. Even before school, he began to study music at the Kozitsky Palace of Culture, where he learned to play the balalaika, domra, piano, and guitar.

From 1974 to 1976, Guryanov studied at secondary school No. 363 in Kupchino. In 1975, he graduated from the city art school No. 1. In 1976, he entered the V. A. Serov Leningrad Art School (Russian: Ленинградское художественное училище имени В. А. Серова), but left the school after a year.

Guryanov lived in Moscow for part of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Starting in the late 1980s, Guryanov traveled substantially. He visited Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Budapest, New York, Los Angeles, Cadaques, and lived for long periods in Berlin, London, and Spain (having studied Spanish since 1993). He called St. Petersburg, Madrid, and London his favorite cities. In his final years, he lived and worked on Liteyny Avenue in St. Petersburg.