Photography. Volkhova - Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel; with the autograph to Petr Olenin

1897-1898

V. Chekhovsky's photography, Moscow

Cardboard, photo paper, collodion printing

21,3х13,1; 19,5х12,9

In 1894, the Odessa photographer Wolf (Vasily) Chekhovsky opened a photo studio in Moscow. By that time, he was an acknowledged master, whose photos were already highly awarded. This fact attracted representatives of the Moscow intelligentsia to Chekhovsky’s studio. The actors of the Russian Private Opera founded by Savva Mamontov also loved being photographed there. This photo of the Chekhov's studio represents Nadezhda Zabela-Vrubel in the role of the sea princess Volkhova. She is wearing a costume designed by her husband, Mikhail Vrubel. Nadezhda Ivanovna holds a flower wreath in her hands. Along the upper edge of the photo there is an autograph left by Zabela-Vrubel to her stage partner Peter Olenin: "To Peter Sergeevich Olenin for bad memory, since the good is too banal". Along the lower edge there is a partially lost signature: "Volkhova Princess N. Zabela".

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