Olga Nesterova Biography

Olga’s images in portraits created by his loving father “Portrait of O. Nesterova”, Tretyakov Gallery, “Portrait of O. Nesterova“ Amazon ”, the Russian Museum, embodied these features and became an allegory of femininity for contemporaries. Photos of Olga Mikhailovna, stored along with the archival documents of M. Nesterov, also convey the subtle grace of the girl inherited from her mother Maria Ivanovna Martynovskaya.

Nesterov, according to his daughter, said that his first spouse had "elusive charm, natural originality and amazing femininity", attracting "all who knew her." Unfortunately, Maria Ivanovna died shortly after childbirth, and Olga brought up in Ufa, a distance from her father, Sister Nesterova Alexander Vasilievna. Nesterov visited relatives, sent them cuts of fabric and the sketches of the most fashionable styles of dresses, costumes and hats.

Together with her sister, they instilled a “beloved Olyushka” taste for elegant outfits. Judging by the photographs, Olga from childhood was used to wearing exquisite clothes even in everyday life. When the daughters were 12 years old, Nesterov gave her to the Institute of Noble Maidens in Kyiv, where he then worked on the painting of the Vladimir Cathedral. The cool lady of this educational institution, Ekaterina Petrovna Vasilieva, became the second wife of the artist in the year.

The dress in which the girl is captured in this photo was bought for a graduation ball at the institute. Probably, it was ordered in St. Petersburg a photograph was taken in the capital's studio; It is known that in the spring of the year Nesterov went there on business. The outfit is sewn in the fashion of the Art Nouveau era: the wide sleeves of Gigo emphasize the subtlety of the waist pulled into the corset, along with a magnificent skirt without a frame, the silhouette resembles a sand clock.

But not only an exquisite dress attracts attention to the photograph. The young girl in the picture does not seem to notice the camera, being immersed in her inner world. Such a fragile, slightly melancholy, as if living with romantic dreams of the Silver Age - she was remembered by contemporaries and thanks to her portraits. Olga's fate was not easy, although there were light stripes in it.

In the year, she became the wife of lawyer Viktor Nikolayevich Schreter. Having not received a special education, she was an artist-applied and created embroidery in the technique of the surface, worked in Rumyantsevskaya later the Lenin library. In the year, her husband was accused of espionage and sentenced to death. Olga, as the wife of the enemy of the people, was sent into exile in Jambul.

In the year, Olga managed to return to Moscow, but until the end of her life she died in the year, she remained disabled. The photographs of Olga Mikhailovna kept her with the young girl that she was captured and in the portraits of her father’s brush - sophisticated, stately, sublimely beautiful.