The artist and poets

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Kovalenskaya Olga (in marriage. Solovyov) (1855 - 1903), a painter, a pupil Polenov (she painted the Orthodox churches, participated in exhibitions of the Moscow Association of Artists, he painted portraits, including AD Bugayeva, mother of Andrei Bely). daughter Alexandra GRIGORIEVNA Kovalenskim, sister grandmother of Alexander Blok, the wife of the younger brother of the philosopher Vl. Soloviev - Mikhail Sergeyevich (1862 - 1903) and mother symbolist poet Sergey Soloviev. The family lived in the house Rakhmanova on the Arbat, in the same house and lived with her son Boris Bugaev, the future poet of "Andrey Bely". Olga was very much inclined to Bors Bugaev. She encouraged the development of many of his literary interests. Gorbachev paid little attention to the poetic development of the poet, but at some point, he strongly insisted on, to print a "Symphony" Boris Bugaev and not just anywhere, but in "Scorpio" Valery Bryusov. Mikhail Sergeevich and came up with for a suitable pseudonym of Boris Bugaev "Andrew White".
Photo of her son Sergei, and two paintings by the artist - "slave" and "peons".
It was close with her mother Olga Alexander Blok - Alexandra Andreevna Beketova - Block. This convergence occurred at a time when Alexander Blok wrote many poems, and his mother sent them to Moscow for consultation, Olga Mikhailovna. Lyrics like, and Olga helped literary debut of Alexander Blok, first in Moscow and then in St. - Petersburg.
In 1903 the family came Soloviev heavy drama - 16 January and died hard bolevshy Mikhail Sergeyevich, and behind him shot herself Olga.

Tragic is the fate of her son and symbolist poet. In 1926, Soloviev, convert to Catholicism, became Vice-Exarch of the Greek-Catholics, the head is not officially registered community in Moscow. On the night of 15 to 16 February 1929 Father Sergius was arrested on gang-case Russian Catholics. As a result of arrest and interrogation had happened to him neuro-psychiatric disorder. As a chronic patient, he was sent to a psychiatric hospital on Stolbovaya station near Moscow. October 23 was released under the custody of her eldest daughter.
In recent years, the life of Sergei Solovyov held in a psychiatric hospital name Kashchenko. In August 1941 the hospital was evacuated to Kazan, where SM Soloviev and died on March 2, 1942. He was buried at the cemetery Arskoe in Kazan, his grave was lost.