Antonina Rzhevskaya
Antonina Leonardovna Rzhevskaya (née Popova; Russian: Антонина Леонардовна Ржевская; 1861– 15 July 1934) also known by masculine pseudonym A. L. Rzhevsky, was a Russian painter, primarily of domestic genre scenes. She was one of the only two women who worked with the Peredvizhniki.
Biography
Antonina Leonardovna Popova was born on 1861 in Shalepnyky,
In 1897, she exhibited with the Peredvizhniki at their twenty-fifth exposition and her painting, "A Merry Moment", was acquired by
She was married to Nikolai Fyodorovich Rzhevsky, who taught at a private girls' school and was a member of the "Imperial Russian Technical Society". At the beginning of World War I, she moved to Tarusa to live with her daughter and new son-in-law, Vasily Vatagin, who would later become a well-known sculptor and animal artist.[1]
In 1920, together with Nikolay Kasatkin, she organized an educational art studio for children who were ill with bone disease and did volunteer work at the Zakhar'in sanatorium, near Khimki, where she also painted frescoes.[3]
She died on 15 July 1934 in Tarusa, Soviet Union.
References
- ^ a b c Biographical notes Archived 24 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine @ ArtRu.
- ^ Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок: a list of artists who exhibited with the Peredvizhniki.
- ^ Notes about the sanatorium @ "Khimki" (archived).
External links
Media related to Antonina Rzhevskaya at Wikimedia Commons
- Reminiscences by her granddaughter, the icon painter Irina Vatagin, @ Moscow Journal.
- The Rzhevsky House @ Explore Moscow.