Zarudnaya-Kavos Ekaterina (1862-1917)

Vitality painter and graphic artist Ekaterina Zarudny-Kavos with more than enough for a few people.
 studying at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1881-1887), where among her teachers was himself PP Chistyakov , she combined with trips to Paris, where she took lessons in K. Durand and R. Julien Academy.
Zarudnaya In 1887, Kavos ends Academy with the rank of class artist.

 Then begins a life filled with tireless work, wonderful acquaintances and extraordinary activities. Among the executed ES Zarudny-Kavos paintings and drawings of portraits - famous figures of Russian culture historian KN Bestuzhev-Rumin, Senator VA Artsimovich, essayist and philosopher VS Soloviev, writer VV Water carriers, artists , NA Yaroshenko and IE Repin , a lawyer and writer, AF Horses, artists PV Samoilov, VF Komissarzhevskaia, PA Korsakov, MN Germanova, composer and conductor, MM Ippolitov-Ivanov, writers, NA Dob and AM Bitter.
And besides this portrait gallery of genre pictures (eg "teaching lesson", "From a child's life"), numerous watercolors, drawings and sketches, etchings. ES Zarudnaya-organized Kavos satirical and children's magazines and worked in many of them.

In 1905, together with AM The language has opened in St. Petersburg school of painting, where he taught artists such as BM Kustodiev , EE Lancer . At her studio in St. Petersburg operated Sunday school drawing for workers.
Throughout his life, ES Zarudnaya-Kavos is an example of tireless female nature, much of the energy which is usefully served the fatherland.