Seraphima Iasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) (, 3 October 1870 – 9 August 1947) was a Russian artist and art teacher. Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3, 1870, in

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, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). In 1875 her family moved to

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. In 1887 Blonskaya graduated with a golden medal from the Mariinskaya Gymnasium (Таганрогская мариинская гимназия) and entered the Art School of

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that she finished in 1891. In 1892-1900, she studied at the

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. In 1900 Blonskaya was honored with the title of the artist for her degree work painting ''The Girls'' (''Palm Sunday''). In 1909 Blonskaya returned to Taganrog with her husband artist Leontovski, and in 1910 they founded an art school. After the death of her husband in 1928, the school was closed. In 1930s Seraphima Blonskaya worked at the art union ''Vsekohudozhnik'', since 1944 - at the Taganrog department of the Art Fund of

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. Most paintings of Blonskaya are exhibited at the Taganrog Museum of Art. Seraphima Blonskaya died in

on August 9, 1947, and was buried at the

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. In 1990s one of the children's art schools in Taganrog was named after Blonskaya.

References

* ''The Encyclopedia of Taganrog'', 2nd edition, Taganrog, 2003. {{DEFAULTSORT:Blonskaya, Seraphima 1870 births 1947 deaths 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire 19th-century women painters from the Russian Empire 20th-century Russian painters People from Verkhnodniprovsk 20th-century Russian women artists 20th-century Ukrainian women painters