Portrait of NP Zhdanovich in his childhood by Pavel Fedotov

Portrait of NP Zhdanovich in his childhood by Pavel Fedotov

Nadenka Zhdanovich Fedotov knew still very small, he made a pair of watercolor portraits of her and Olga’s sister, drawing both in the same red dresses, with bare hands.

Even then, in a teenage girl with a serious gaze, he guessed the character that was fully revealed in the young girl-institute, which the artist painted sitting behind the clavinet: purity without hypocrisy, femininity without affectation, dignity without arrogance, vivacity without coquetry, the mind without pedantry, modesty without derogation.

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