Here is taken:
http://www.nasledie-rus.ru/podshivka/6904.php
"Maria V. Lebedev (1895-1942) worked at the State Porcelain Factory from 1919 to 1923 and performed a number of interesting figures, as the nature of propaganda, and purely decorative. Themes and Symbols she had her own, with the majority of artists are not similar. No wonder it is considered along with A.V.Schekotihinoy-Pototskaya (classmate at school, Society for the Encouragement of Arts), the most independent of chehoninskogo influence. Purely decorative works of the artist remained extremely small. In particular, it has hitherto been known only to a dish with paintings on the theme of "Exile from paradise. "instance in the author's performance is stored in a former factory museum broadcast is now in the Hermitage, and in the collections of the State Museum of Ceramics Kuskovo have a copy, painted by the artist B. Frese on the drawing Lebedeva. Full-service with the author's label (a stylized image of a swan, a refinement in the letter "M") in all subjects, the original forms of which performed specially for the first time introduced into the scientific revolution. "
Lebedeva, as on "Connelly - were pupils Bilibin.
About Connelly - was a lady Ivan Bilibin to 1917 (first met in 1907, and most lived together from 1912 g).