Seraphima Ioasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) was a Russian artist and art teacher.

Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3, 1870 in Verkhnodniprovsk

Verkhnodniprovsk

Verkhnodniprovsk is a city in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast of Ukraine. Population is 16,976 . Serving as the administrative center of the Verkhnodniprovskyi Raion...

 of Yekaterinovslav Government. In 1875 her family moved to Taganrog

Taganrog

Taganrog is a seaport city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the north shore of Taganrog Bay , several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population: -History of Taganrog:...

. In 1887 Blonskaya graduated with a golden medal from the Mariinskaya Gymnasium

Mariinskaya Gymnasium

The Mariinskaya Gymnasium in Taganrog on Chekhov Str. 104 - currently school No. 15 of the North Caucasus Railway – originated from two oldest educational establishments in the South of Russia: the Mariinskaya Gymnasium for Girls and the Railway Vocational School.- History of Gymnasium :The...

 (Таганрогская мариинская гимназия) and entered the Art School of Mykola Burachek

Mykola Burachek

Mykola Burachek was a Ukrainian Impressionist painter and pedagogue....

 in Kiev

Kiev

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 that she finished in 1891. In 1892-1900, she studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts

Imperial Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, was founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov under the name Academy of the Three Noblest Arts. Catherine the Great renamed it the Imperial Academy of Arts and commissioned a new building, completed 25 years later in 1789...

 in Saint Petersburg

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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 RSFSR. Most paintings of Blonskaya are exhibited at the Taganrog Museum of Art

Taganrog Museum of Art

-History:Taganrog Museum of Art was officially inaugurated in 1968, but the basis of the museum collection was formed by the end of 19th century when the art department of the Taganrog's city museum was established....

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Seraphima Blonskaya died in Taganrog

Taganrog

Taganrog is a seaport city in Rostov Oblast, Russia, located on the north shore of Taganrog Bay , several kilometers west of the mouth of the Don River. Population: -History of Taganrog:...

on August 9, 1947. In 1990s one of the children's art schools in Taganrog was named after Blonskaya.