Polenova Elena

1850 - 1898
pupil PP. Chistyakov and St. Petersburg. Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts (in which its main mentor was I.N. Kramskoy) improved in Paris, visiting the studio Shaplov. During the Russian-Turkish war of 1877 - 1878 period in the care of the wounded, and later deeds of charity. In 1884, Mr.. made the trip to the sketches on the Volga and the Don, the Caucasus and the Crimea. Painted oils, . worked watercolor, . dealt with ceramic painting, . composing drawings for art and industrial products, . been making pictures for the original illustrated editions, . discovering all of these birth of rare talent and good taste,
. The most important of her works - paintings: "Icons Workshop XVI century" (located in the Tretyakov Gallery, . Moscow), . Prince Boris before his ubiyeniyem "(in the Russian Museum of Emperor Alexander III, . in St. Petersburg.), . "Wandering Musicians" and "Away from the Cross"; illustrations to fairy tales: "The White Duck", . War of mushrooms ", . Ivanushki fool "and" Santa Claus "and the original drawings in a new way for the factory Abramtzevo in Moscow.,