Background
Her father was a military engineer of French ancestry and she received her secondary education at the "Pauline Institute for Women", a school for young girls of the nobility.
Her father was a military engineer of French ancestry and she received her secondary education at the "Pauline Institute for Women", a school for young girls of the nobility.
Then, she studied drawing in Helsinki and took private classes in the workshop of Vice-President Vereshchagin.
To help her cope with her grief, she moved to Paris and took more lessons at the private academy of Jules Bastien-Lepage. She was especially known for her color illustrations in the Christmas and Easter additions and the annual calendar. She also created posters, advertisements and theater programs.
Although she painted numerous portraits and genre scenes, she is probably best remembered for her book illustrations.
Notably the ones for Eugene Onegin by Pushkin, which were done in 1911, and those for The Little Humpbacked Horse by Yershov. lieutenant is generally believed that she stayed in Paris after the war was over, and died there, although some sources indicate that she returned to Vyborg.
She became a member of the "First Lady"s Artistic Circle" (which existed from 1882 to 1918) and exhibited alongside some of the most prominent painters of that time, including Ivan Shishkin and Ilya Repin.