ZhZL: Zinaida Serebriakova - Rusakova A.

Only once having seen the portraits of the brush of Evgenyevna Serebryakova, they can not be confused with the works of other authors. Without a serious artistic education, she combined the genes of the famous creative families of Benoit and Lancer and was fanatically devoted to art. In her work, lyrical women's and children's portraits coexist with monumental paintings dedicated to Russian peasants. Her painting became known in the first decade of the 20th century, but after the forced departure to France "dropped out" of Russian art culture, and our contemporaries begin to comprehend it anew. Doctor of art history A. A. Rusakova tells about the fate of the artist on the basis of memories, letters, as well as a deep knowledge of her work.
2nd edition, corrected and supplemented.