Evdokiya Mikhailovna Bakunina ( 1793 - 1882 ) - Russian artist of the XIX century. The first woman who was sent abroad in 1835 as a pensioner by the Academy of Arts.
| Evdokia Mikhailovna Bakunina | |
|---|---|
 In a watercolor portrait by P. Sokolov | |
| Date of Birth | 1793 |
| Date of death | 1882 |
| Nationality |  Russian empire |
| Awards | 1st Silver Medal of the Academy of Fine Arts |
Biography
The daughter of Senator Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakunin .
Having earned the first silver medal for painting from the Imperial Academy of Arts on December 22, 1834, she, thanks to the efforts of the chairman of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists, Count V.V. Musin-Pushkin-Bruce (whose portrait she created), got the opportunity to go to Italy to improve (1835–36). The artist Alexander Ivanov wrote to his father in frustration that the money allocated to her would be wasted [1] .
In Italy, she performed a copy of Correggio 's painting “The Betrothal of St. Catherine’s, exhibited in Rome and St. Petersburg in 1839. Having spent, with the assistance of the members of the said Society, four years in France and Italy, she was supposed to return to Russia (1839–43) [2] . In Italy, she visited the workshop of A. Ivanov. Nestor Puppeteer asked her to become a correspondent from Rome in order to tell the readers of the “Artistic Newspaper” how our artists live abroad. At one time, as her sister Catherine testifies to this, she even worked at the Delacroix atelier. She left a self-portrait, which was stored at least until 1915 in the Premukhinsky family of the Bakunins [3] .
In the 1820s and 30s, it played a prominent role in Moscow society and was the bride of Adam Mickiewicz , but the marriage did not take place due to differences in religion and religious views of the bride and groom [4] . The son and biographer of the poet Vladislav Mitskevich said that according to his father, he would have married one person if she had not been Orthodox [3] . In 1854, in St. Petersburg, she was busy with a meeting with her arrested cousin Mikhail Bakunin [3] .
I was not married. After the death of her mother, together with her sisters, she owned Kazitsyn. Buried in Pryamukhina.
Bibliography
- “A Collection of Materials for the History of I. A. X.”, P. N. Petrov, II, 324. - “Reports of O. P. X.”: 1835–36; with. 22-24, and 1839-40, p. 14. - “Library for reading” 1839, v. 37, Dep. III, p. 55.
Notes
- ↑ Foreign artists in Russia XVIII-XIX centuries. »INTELROS . www.intelros.ru. Date of treatment February 16, 2019.
- ↑ Bakunina, Evdokia Mikhailovna // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918. .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Leonid Martynov. Adam and Eudokia . The magazine "Change" (No. 1273, June 1980). Date of treatment February 16, 2019.
- ↑ Bakunins . www.rulex.ru. Date of treatment February 16, 2019.