Elena Mrozovskaya

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Lukinichna and the family name is Mrozovskaya.
Elena Mrozovskaya before 1917

Elena Lukinichna Mrozovskaya or Helène de Mrosovsky (née Knyazhevich; Russian: Елена Лукинична Мрозовская née Княжевич; fl. 1892 – c. 1941) was a Russian and Soviet professional photographer of Montenegrin descent.[1][2]

Life and career

Mrozovskaya's brother, Vladimir Pavlovich Mrozovsky, was a mechanical engineer and painter, and her uncle,

St. Petersburg, she opened a studio there in 1894.[1][2] In the 1920s, she was living in Serovo, a district of St. Petersburg. She died in 1941 in Repino, another district of St. Petersburg.[4]

Photography

Mrozovskaya's subjects included

Liège International (1905).[1][2]

Collections and exhibits

Princess Olga Orlova at the 1903 Ball

One of her photos, a hand-tinted image of Princess Olga Orlova wearing a

Moscow House of Photography, and was exhibited in Amsterdam in early 2013 as part of an exhibit organized by the Russian Ministry of Culture.[8] Many photos by Mrozovskaya are kept in the collection of the St. Petersburg Conservatory,[2] and several more are in the collection of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art.[9]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Бархатова, Е.В., Мрозовская Елена Лукинична [Elena Lukinichna Mrozovskaya] (in Russian), Runivers, retrieved 18 October 2013.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Елена Мрозовская: первая русская женщина-фотограф [Elena Mrozovskaya: the first Russian woman photographer] (in Russian), rosphoto.com, 12 November 2012.
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    , Elena Lukinichna Mrozovskaya, an artistic photographer in St. Petersburg, had a house in Vammelsuu in the 1920s; in 1941 she died in Kuokkala, after the Soviet-Finnish War of 1939-40.
  5. ^ Exhibitions on tour: Princess Olga Orlova in masquerade Archived 21 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Hermitage Museum. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  6. ^ Monahan, Mark (14 June 2003), "Viewfinder: Princess Orlova-Davydova", The Daily Telegraph.
  7. ^ St. Petersburg: A 300th Birthday Tribute Archived 20 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Hermitage Rooms Archive, Courtauld Gallery. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
  8. ^ Brooks, Katherine (19 December 2012), "Color Photography in Russia: 'Primrose' Exhibit Features Amazing Vintage Snapshots Of The Motherland", HuffPost.
  9. ^ Mrozovskaya, Helena Lukinichna Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art. Retrieved 18 October 2013.
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