Margarita
Rufinovna Lagrange (Sudkovskaya) Rufinovna. 1884-1972

Lagrange (Sudkovskaya) Margarita Rafikovna. 1884-1972
Born в1884 year in St. Petersburg. Until 1918 lived in Petrograd. In 1915
the first Russian women sat behind the wheel of a car. Then lived in the Crimea, in Alushta.
The second half of life lived and worked in Moscow. Died in 1972 in Moscow.
Painter, wrote mostly still lifes. Daughter of academician of painting Rufina
Gavrilovich Sudkovsky and renowned Illustrator of books of Helena Petrovna Samokish-
Rudkovskoy. Lived and worked in Moscow. Member of the Union of artists of the USSR.
Mentioned in the catalog of the exhibition "Art of the Soviet Crimea." The exhibition was
opened Opened July 20, 1935 in Moscow, the State Museum of Oriental cultures.
The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Oriental cultures, together with Kimprobable and
Crimebeat.
Sections of the exhibition: 1. Paintings and drawings by professional artists, 2.
Amateur fine art. 3. Household art. Was attended by 23 artist
professional, they exhibited 74 works.
Issued catalog: Catalog of the exhibition "Art of the Soviet Crimea." (Introductory article
State. Museum of Eastern cultures). (State Museum of Eastern cultures). Moscow,
1935
The participants of the exhibition: Akopyan A. S., Barsamov N. S., Berthal J. P., K. F. Bogaevsky,
The Brummer L. V., Viktorovskoe P. I., Hafner V., Glagolev A., Ivanova N., Cegelec A. I.,
Kroshechkin-Kroshitsky M. P., Likhosherstov S., Lugovy V., Rudenko I., Salamov A.,
Samokisha N. S., Solovyov I., Sudkovskaya-Lagrange M. R., W. A. Ustaev, Chepurina P. J.,
Sparinsky-Hamman A. I., Yanovsky, V. K., A. Yarmuhamedov
Interesting history of the family of the artist. It roots in France and
Italy. In 1812 in Russia killed her parents – the king's chief of staff
Murat's Neapolitan Colonel La Grange and his wife from a noble Neapolitan
home Cicchini, but left to live with their children son and daughter, marked the beginning of the Russian branch
Of Lagrange, in which is interwoven the names of count Miloradovich, Fyodor Glinka, the Emperor
Alexander I and Empress Maria Feodorovna, the military and the artists of the Russian
Empire.
Her father was a distinguished marine painter, academician of painting of the Imperial
Academy of arts Rufin Gavrilovich Sudkovsky (1850-1885), and mother - Elena
Petrovna Samokish-Sudkovskaya (nee. Bernard), after the death of her husband released the second
marriage for the famous Russian battle artist, also member of the
The Imperial Academy of arts, Nikolai Semenovich Samokish. E. P. Samokish-
Sudkovskaya graduated from the Pavlovsky Institute, he studied for two years in Helsingfors
drawing school and took private lessons from V. Vereshchagin. In 1885 he studied at the
private Academy of Jean bastien-Lepage in Paris, and in St. Petersburg from 1882 to 1918 was
a member of the first Ladies ' art circle. Worked in easel painting and
chart. He participated in major art exhibitions, along with his
teacher V. Vereshchagin, and I. Repin and Shishkin.
In one of the halls of Vitebsk station in St. Petersburg (Tsarskoye Selo before the revolution
station), built in 1901-1904 years, there are murals by jointly N. C.
And the Samokish, E. P. Samokish-Sudkovskaya dedicated to the history of Tsarskoye Selo
railway. The couple occasionally worked together. For example, they both participated in
the preparation of an illustrated edition of "Dead souls" by Gogol (the printing house of A. F. Marx, 1901). By the way, the most famous E. P. Samokish-Sudkovskaya acquired
his illustrations to the works of A. S. Pushkin ("Eugene Onegin" ed. 1911) and
to "the humpbacked Horse" Yershov. A lot of drawing for the magazine "Niva". Painted it and
postcards of the community of Saint Eugene (also known as "Publisher of the red
Cross"), which launched its first postal cards in Russia. In 1896, for
drawings for "Coronation collection" received the Highest award and medal at the
the blue tape.
The Grandson Of Margaret Of Ruvimovna Lagrange-Sudkovskaya, Vladimir R. Lagrange
born in 1939 in Moscow. In 1959-1963 he studied at the Moscow state University faculty
journalism, worked in the "photo ITAR-TASS". From 1963 to 1989 - photographer
in the magazine "Soviet Union" from 1989 to 1991, journal "Rodina", and since 1991 по1995 year
- in the Moscow Bureau of the French Agency "SIPA-Press". Mainly worked in the genre
economic, social and political report. Photos Of Vladimir
Lagrange were published in many Soviet magazines and Newspapers, as well as in "Freie
Welt", "news week", "Paris Match", etc. In 1987 he 100
photographers from around the world participated in the creation of the book "One day in the life of
The Soviet Union", published in the USA.
In 1963 he was awarded a gold medal at the photo exhibition in Budapest, and in 1965 –
bronze medal in Moscow. Member of the Union of journalists since 1964. Since 1991 – member
Union of art photographers. In 2002 he became the laureate of the prize "Golden eye of Russia".
His father graduated from the cinematography Department of VGIK, the mother worked as a photo editor.
http://www.vlagrange.ru/contact.html the Website of V. R. Lagrange.