Viacheslav Mikhaylenko was born in St.-Petersburg in 1941, graduated from the Mukhina High Industrial Art School in 1970. He is a member of the Art Union of Russia since 1981. Since 1985 he has been entirely engaged in icon-painting according to the Orthodox Canon and by blessing of the Ecumenical Patriarch Dimitrios and Archbishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. He worked for the Koimesis Kievo-Pecherskaya Lavra (Ukrain), The St.John Nunnery (St.-Petersburg),the St.Trinity Lintula Convent (Finland), Churches of St.-Petersburg, Finland, Sweden. Since 2000 he has been painting icons and teaching icon-painting in the Transfiguration on Valamo Monastery (Finland). He takes a participation in exhibitions in Russia and Europe.

Tatyana Mikhaylenko was born in St.-Petersburg in 1972. She was educated in the Orthodox family and was her farther's student from a child. In 1990-1992 she studied at the icon-painting class in the Ecclesiastic Academy. Ju.Bolshakova and A.Stal'nov were her teachers. Subsequently she worked and studied under the guidance of her farther. Since 2003 she is a member of the Art Union of Russia. She painted icons for churches and private customers. Tatyana has the experience of tuition icon-painting in the Transfiguration New Valamo Monastery(Finland).