Portrait of Margarita Morozova VK Shtembera
 

Portrait of Margarita Morozova Kirillovna executed VK Shtemberom in 1893, refers probably to the very first years of marriage, Margaret Kirillovna. In this portrait, it is still very young, in a ball gown, with a fan, without any ornaments, with a haircut in the Greek style. No smote all the huge diamonds, not even a thread of pearls. The thin fabric of her dress on satin cover, written and gently as if blurred, contrasts with the rich and deep background. I could not help recall the words of Theodore Avgustovich Stepun: "Somehow Margarita Kirillovna I always seen in silver-purple, green and pearl colors of the lunar spectrum. Write a portrait of her, it would be best of all pastels. In colors present influence impressionistic portrait of the school, but the clarity of the picture is nowhere admits the loss of form. Eyes that Andrew White described as "dazzling, with a gleam of sapphire, the emerald," particularly attracted artists. And the literary portraits of Marguerite Kirillovna exactly coincide with its picturesque image: "Underline the dark eyebrows, long black lashes gave them in combination with a tinge of blue squirrel some oosobuyu steel iridescence. Such a typical Russian gray eyes are especially good in anger and sorrow," -- continued Stepun. However, the date can be roughly defined as 1893, as III of the exhibition of paintings of the St. Petersburg Society of Artists, held in Moscow in 1894, no later than March, in the directory under the number 1 means a portrait of Ms. Morozova (no initials). But there is evidence that exhibited a portrait of Marguerite Kirillovna.
In the same 1893 Viktor Karlovich Stemberg wrote another mysterious portrait, possibly under the influence of communication with MK Morozova, it is called "Waiting". Location of the picture, written in a valid NU, I have not found, but remained black and white postcard of the time, no output. Clearly visible to the artist's signature: Shtember.1893. I think there are definitely similarities.

In our art museum is a beautiful portrait of Margarita Morozova Valentin Serov.
Do not be lazy, I'll take off and show you.

Not the same?
I do not have to go take pictures. :)

Yes, in 1891, eighteen years old, Margarita Kirillovna (Mamontov's maiden name) married Mikhail Abramovich Morozov, who was older than her by only three years.
There is another little-known portrait of Morozova, who, along with the work Shtembera entered the Memorial Apartment Andrei Bely. About them there is no evidence either in the memoirs of contemporaries, or in published memoirs, the most Morozova. Before submitting them to the museum they were stored in his son's first wife Margaret Kirillovna Mikhail Mikhailovich Morozov (whose portrait Mika Morozov work Serov is well known, is stored in TG) T.R.Rogal-Levitsky and her adopted daughter, MS Muraveiskaya. One of them is dated 1897. Its author - Nikolai Kornilievich Bodarevsky. Name Bodarevsky now almost forgotten, but in its time it was fashionable and famous artist, whose portraits were a great success. He wrote to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and the best advice in the light of the artist could not be. A portrait of the Empress is stored in the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Cyril Syzransky, Yes, this portrait!

It is unfinished, 1910, the
Here's what she Margarita Kirillovna this says: I Serov's always a little afraid of and embarrassed, despite my great respect for him and that he liked me. I do not even want him to paint my portrait, because I knew he was such "ladies" disliked. Only at the very end of his life, we somehow got to talking and decided that he did write my portrait. He began to write, made several paintings of some impressionist style like dots and grooves, and said he wanted to portray me so I walked, talked and smiled. Unfortunately, this whole thing and ended as Serov died suddenly. (c)