Born December 13, 1864 (old style) in Poltava. Her father Grudiev Mikhail, mother Blagodarev Evdokia Denisovna. The eldest daughter in the family.
Studied painting at a private school. Worked as a drawing teacher.
Studied photography, chasing, wood carving, painting on porcelain.
Was a consummate forger. Only one survived her painting "Fog."
In 1897 he participated in the staging of the Moscow art theatre "Antigone" of Sophocles. In the family of the descendants of her sister Eugenia a photograph of the Director of the Moscow art theatre A. A. Sanina (real name schönberg) autographed "M-lle E. Gradeschool on a good memory about the General work and worries for the formulation of Sorokovoy "Antigone". Moscow, 1897 April"
Elizabeth Gradistea died in 1932.
