Receiving a good General education in the house of his parents, landowners in Kharkiv province., continued special education in Dresden, under the leadership of St. Ergardt. Under the influence of the ideas of 60-ies came to the determination to dedicate their lives to the artistic development of the masses. In 1868 she was the first Russian women passed the exam at the Imperial Academy of arts for the title of a free artist and in early 1869, was opened in Kharkov, Russia's first private "school of drawing and painting" (with a public charge to the indigent free of charge). For 28 years she led the business with her characteristic energy and devotion to his idea, yet befell her blindness forced to transfer school under the jurisdiction of the city; but still accepts R. in school the hottest part. In the formulation of school R. had in mind, along with purely artistic goals and the development of taste in craft technique. For the school in the first drawing competition for schools, organized on the initiative of the archaeology, R. received the title of honorary member of the Academy. Published guide: "the ABC of drawing for family and school", "Recipe of the ornament for the technical schools, in addition to articles and pamphlets on art.-pedag. issues.
[1840, s. gavrilovka, now Barvenkovsky district, Kharkov region., 1912, Kharkiv, buried in Havrylivka] — Ukr. painter (self-Portrait (1866), “death of a peasant in the Ukraine” (1868), “the girl at the fence”) and educator, author of “ABC's of drawing for family and school”. A Graduate Of The St. Petersburg Academy. AH. Studied in Dresden. The first Russian woman, St. Petersburg. AH was awarded the title of artist (1868).
In 1869, opened in Kharkov private art school. Nine years the school was located in various rented premises, in 1878 R. husband placed the school in his own. house (ul Sportivnaya, 6). In 1896 R. gave the school the city and was transferred to premises in City hood.-prom. the Museum (2nd floor of Novo-sergiyevskiy of the former. Sergiyevskoye (now Proletarskaya) square; the building was destroyed in the war 1941 — 1945). There is a school, received the status of city was 16 years old. The program was expanded and approved by OH, which provided the school, both methodological and material support. At this time the school was taught by artists M. A. berkos, D. I. Asperti, R. M. Pestrikov, K. P. Pinaev, E. E. Schrader, sculptors F. O. Natali, I. Jacobs, and others In 1912, the school was converted into Art school and moved to the specially built for it building, on the street Kaplunovsky 152, 8.
Lit.: Leibfreid. S. 174 (photos p. 175); MU.
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