Daniil Volkov was born 1974 in Yalta, the son of renowned Ukrainian artists with an ancestral history of painters going back to the court of Imperial Russia. In 1989, he entered the Crimean art school named after Samokish, and it was here that he met his future wife Elena, also a distinguished artist. He graduated in 1989 and his first solo exhibition was held in Yalta in 1995. Furthering his education, he studied at Moscow State University. In 2001, Volkov returned to Yalta where he has been living and working since, specializing in capturing the beauty of the Crimean landscape in his own distinctive lyrical style. Volkov has participated in numerous exhibitions, his works are in private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Europe, Canada and the USA. He has had a one-man exhibit and virtual catalog at Gallery Russia in 2012, 2013 and 2014, as well as a solo catalog in 2015.