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"The view from the river." Oil on canvas. 9.5 x12. On the reverse side reads well gift certificate: Presented by DA Polenov. 1904. 21. 10.
  Whether the family belonged Polenovs this sketch?
  It is known that the famous Russian artist VD Polenova (1844-1927) was the brother of Alex D., who had a wife Faina Aleksandrovna nee Olkhin. The remaining information is very modest.
 Alex D. Polenov (1845 - circa 1912) known at the time a lawyer and economist, as well as traveler and author of Notes on a trip to the Kola Peninsula, published in the journal Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society. Privy Councillor.
From the archives of 1909: - 59 years. (Possibly born 1849) - Higher Education - 1428 dess. land. Selce-owned Alekseevskoe Voejkova (former Voejkova) Kazinski township 60 miles from Yelets. - Stud farm - trotting and polurysistoy rocks; - 67 yards. In the county Zemstvo, county chief, the vowels from the 1 st of the election meeting.
It turns out that a 1916 horse-mill and grain warehouse with Art. Terbuny in with. Alexeyev. already owned the Dmitri Polenov with his son. Was DA Polenov nephew VD Polenov.?
He is given to this sketch?
 It is known that AD Polenov with SI Mamontov was appointed executor of a major financier and philanthropist FW Chizhov (1811-1877). Earlier Chizhov was closely associated with Abramtsevo circle that unites artists who are suffering the fate of Russian art around the colorful shapes Mamontov in his estate near Moscow Abramtzevo. "Uncle Chizhov" - so called AF Chizhov in the family of his friend D. Polenova. "Grumblers-uncle, of course, jokingly called Fedor Mamontov in letters to a friend VDPolenov. In the words of friends are not limited to - Sawa made a bust and a portrait of Vasily Chizhov.
From this it follows that Alexei Dmitrievich was his own man among the "abramtsevtsev", and if that - DA is Dmitri, his son, and gift certificate may be written by one of the artists of this circle.
The date on the sketch, too, wondered at: 27.10. 1904 Just in 1904 VD Polenov finished building a separate house-studio, which he called "The Abbey".

peals, I think you 're right in my assumption . In favor of your version of indirectly says more and Initial D. It is possible ( vozmozhno! ) Dmitri - one of the family name Polenovs .

It remains only to find out who and where he wrote and who gave DA Polenov this sketch . It is obvious that in 1904, Dmitri Polenov - this is is a grown man ( possibly the father of the family ) , ie gift is not accidental .