Marina Tenisheva Biography

Early married Rafail Nikolaevich Nikolaev. The spouses had a daughter, also called Maria, but the marriage did not work out. Soon, Maria Klavdievna, with a little daughter, leaves for Paris with the famous Markesi to study singing. The Uney was a beautiful soprano. After some time, upon returning to Russia, Maria Klavdievna got acquainted with V. Maria, marriage with Prince Vyacheslav Nikolayevich Tenishev - a large Russian industrialist, her husband’s relatives did not recognize the unprodantican, and Maria Klavdievna was not inscribed in the genealogy of the Tenishev princes.

The couple settled near the Bezhitsky Plant in the Khotylevo estate, acquired by Prince Tenishev in the Bryansk district of the Oryol province and located on the banks of the Desna River, where a classic school was founded. The educational activities of Princess Tenisheva began with the organization of a craft school near the Bezhitsky Plant, the first release of which took place in May, dining room and club for workers of the plant.

Tenisheva had a magnificent artistic taste, felt and loved art. Tenisheva collected watercolors and was familiar with artists Vasnetsov, Vrubel, Roerich, Malyutin, Benoit, sculptor Trubetskoy and many other artists. She organized a studio to prepare young people for higher art education in St. Petersburg - where Repin taught. In parallel, the initial drawing school in Smolensk was opened - gg.

During his stay in Paris, Tenisheva studied at the Julian Academy, seriously engaged in painting, collecting. A collection of watercolors of Russian masters was transferred to Tenisheva as a gift to the State Russian Museum. Maria Klavdievna subsidized together with S. Mamontov, the publication of the magazine “World of Art”, financially supported the creative activity of A.

Benois, S. Diaghilev and other outstanding figures of the “Silver Age”. The cherished dream of M. Tenisheva was an enamel business in which a huge success awaited her. It was thanks to the works of Tenisheva and her searches that the enamel business was revived, together with the artist Jacquen, more tones of opaque gravity enamel were developed and received, the method of manufacturing the “recessed” enamel was restored.

The works of Maria Klavdievna were appreciated and the crust of the crust was elected by the actual member of the Society of Fine Arts in Paris and a member of the Union of Decorative and Applied Arts in Paris. After the exhibition of her works in Rome, Tenisheva received an honorary diploma from the Italian Ministry of Education and was elected an honorary member of the Roman Archaeological Society.

The true passion of M. Tenisheva was the Russian antiquity. The collection of objects of Russian antiquity collected by her was exhibited in Paris and made an indelible impression. It was this collection that became the basis of the Russian Old Museum in Smolensk now in the collection of the Smolensk Museum of Fine and Applied Arts. In the year, Tenisheva gave as a gift to Smolensk the first museum of ethnography in Russia and Russian decorative art “Russian antiquity”.

One of the main educational projects in the life of Tenisheva was Talashkino-the birth estate of Princess Ekaterina Konstantinovna Svyatopolk-Churdinskaya, which the Tenishevs acquired in the city Tenishev and the Svyatopolk-Churdinskaya, who were friends from childhood, embodied the concept of an “ideological estate” in Talashkino, that is, the Center for Enlightenment, the revival of traditional folk art culture and at the same time the development of agriculture.

The Tenishevs acquired a Flenovo farm near Talashkin and opened an agricultural school unique at that time, gathering excellent teachers and a richest library. The use of the most advanced achievements of agrarian science allowed the school to prepare highly effective farmers, which Stolypin reform required. After March 26, G. Tenishev, along with the closest girlfriend of E.

Svyatopolk-Churdinskaya, ornament Lisa and a close friend and assistant to V. Lidin, left Russia forever and left in France. Written in exile and published in Paris after her death the memoirs of Princess Tenisheva - “The impressions of my life. Memoirs ”[1] - cover the period of the Kh -X to the New Year's Eve G. Tenishev died on April 14. In the necrologist dedicated to Maria Klavdievna, I.

Bilibin wrote: "She devoted her whole life to her native Russian art, for whom she had done infinitely a lot." Applicant: Pavlov Stepan Stepanovich, Smolensk.