Varvara Baruzdina

Varvara Matveevna Baruzdina (1862–1941) was a Russian painter, mainly of genre scenes. A native of the Tver region, she studied with Pavel Chistyakov, her uncle, and between 1880 and 1885 was a student at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Baruzdina died in the town of Pushkin. Her paintings may be found in the Tretyakov Gallery and the State Russian Museum; one of her works was submitted for exhibition at the 1904 World's Fair.

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• Separated and ‘lost’ for 103 years

• John Milner. A Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Artists, 1420 - 1970. Woodbridge, Suffolk; Antique Collectors' Club, 1993