Iuliia Samoilova. Muza Karla Briullova - Butkova Ol'ga

Russian countess and owner of the Milan salon Yulia Pavlovna Samoylova became famous in Russia and beyond for her beauty, luxurious receptions, philanthropy and extravagant actions. She was idolized and despised, admired, angry at her, gossiped about her. However, the opinion of the light was absolutely indifferent to the countess. She was not a paragon of virtue, did not write any books, no music, no paintings, her fate was messy and awkward. And few knew her reckless, generous, loving soul, knew that she had tried to help everyone who had met in her path, and had not committed a single evil or self-serving act. Such was the life of Countess Samoylova, who was the ideal of Karl Bryullov and the main character of his famous paintings.