Who were the women depicted in the famous paintings by Russian artists

They look aloof or arrogant, they are immersed in themselves or accidentally spotted in the audience and the crowd responded to him an open look. They look at us through the ages. But whom were women, which artists have chosen their muses?

"Portrait of Maria Lopukhina" Vladimir Borovikovsky

Haughty beauty, Countess Lopukhina nee Tolstoy, who recently got married, in this portrait only 18. Portrait of the artist ordered new husband of Mary, Master of the Hunt Paul I Stepan Lopuhin to hit a bride for their generosity and the beauty of its preserved for posterity. In the picture the girl's face glowing with health: playing on the cheeks blush, eyes shining playfully. It is depicted on the background of the nature and color of cornflowers in the background echoes the color of her belt.

Marriage Lopuchin and Mary was unhappy. Children are not a couple has acquired, and after only five years after the painting Lopuchin died of tuberculosis. Since around the paintings went bad glory: They say that every one who looks at it, too, will die soon. There was even talk that the girl's father, Ivan Tolstoy, a famous mystic who somehow endured in the soul of a girl portrait. There was a time when the picture was removed away from human eyes, to protect themselves from misfortune, until she found the Tretyakov himself.

"The Rider", Karl Bryullov

"It has no rivals, no girlfriends, pale beauties of our circle

Her radiance disappears ... "- Alexander Pushkin wrote. But the poem is dedicated to heroine is not a picture Dzhovaniny Pacini, and her mother Julia Samoilova.

Reproductions dynamic canvas Bryullov hung in each apartment. A picture of the artist commissioned a long-term mistress Julia Samoilova - her name is written on the dog collar. Samoilova first marriage was unsuccessful, and she moved to Italy after the death of her husband. It was followed and Masterpieces. There, Julia became the mistress of the famous composer Giovanni Pacini. His daughter, Amatsiliya (junior) and Dzhovaniny became her foster children. It is interesting that according to the documents the composer was only one daughter ...

Julia Samoilova died in poverty in Paris, and the further the fate of her pupils is unknown.

"Beauty," Boris Kustodiev

The artist painted this picture in the midst of a terrible disease - spinal cord tumor. As an Artist's Model Kustodiev invited to pose for him already famous actress MAT Faina Shevchenko. Theater critic Mark wrote then about it: "The dazzling in its simplicity, bright, internally filled with a powerful temperament and an open heart."

In response to the offer to pose naked, even if it is well-known artist, actress exclaimed: "What are you! I, actress Art Theater, will sit naked ?! And then I see a thousand people, a shame what! "But in the end agreed.

The painting razomlevshie merchant woman lies on a bed among the feather pillows. At the exhibition the model and the artist met again. Shevchenko said: "It is very fat!" The artist said: "What is". He kissed her hand.

Faina has played many roles in film and theater, and died at a ripe old age.

"The Unknown", Ivan Kramskoy

Why not just talking about this portrait, which only assumptions did not build! Beautiful woman, alone, looks challenged and neglect. Not only as a concubine. Still, the most likely hypothesis is that the one who posed the master, is the daughter of Ivan Kramskoy Sophia.

about it very little is known for sure only one thing: "unreliable" repressed.

Sophia was a talented artist since childhood was his father's favorite model. Vera Tretyakova, the same age as Sonia thought of her: "Sonya was not pretty, but with a clever, energetic face, lively, cheerful, and extraordinarily talented in painting ... In the 16-17 years old Sonia prettier, had grown hair. Figure she has become a long, thin. She danced beautifully. Her gaiety, wit, and charm attracted to her many fans. "

When the time came, Sonia fell in love - with a young doctor Sergei Botkin. The case went to the wedding as the eve of Sergei broke off the engagement and married girlfriend Sophia Sasha Tretyakova. Sophia was left alone for a long time, experiencing betrayal of a loved one, and got married, but has become a famous artist in the 35 years of lawyer George Juncker. Unfortunately, most of the paintings were not preserved after the civil war and revolution. Due to the fact that after the revolution Sophia Kramskaya helped some of his friends from the former nobility, in 1930, she was arrested and accused of counter-revolutionary propaganda. She was sent on stage, and even a year later Sophia Kramskaya received a pardon, a year later she died.