Princess Tenislaeva (Tenisheva)
1901 · Moscow
Princess Tenislaeva (Tenisheva) is a 1901 portrait by the Russian artist Victor Stember.
Princess Maria Klavdievna Tenisheva (nee Pyatkovskaya, in her first marriage) was born in 1858 and died in 1928. She is best known for founding the Art Studio in St. Petersburg, the Drawing School at the Museum of Russian Antiquity in Smolensk, Handicraft College in Bezhitsa town, as well as by artistic and industrial workshops held in her own estate Talashkino.
In the obituary to honor Maria Tenisheva, Ivan Bilibin wrote:'Her whole life was dedicated to the native Russian art, and she has done infinitely much for it.'
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