Participant Potaninskih cruises

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Antonina Alexandrovna Utkin-Voronin - a teacher of drawing, the artist (born in 1884 in the Great Ustyug).
Grigory Nikolaevich Potanin, a prominent Russian researcher of Eurasia, to represent not. Born in 1835 in Kazakhstan. What could be common between these people, different
by age and area of activity? In different circumstances, in different years, these two men
were in Tomsk. AA Utkin, Voronin worked in Tomsk and after a girls' school headmistress, NA Tikhonravova also met with GN Potanin. At the first meeting of Grigoriy talked to her about Siberia, about his travels to Asia, advised to go to the Altai, the Altai sketch flowers and a Siberian ornament. While AA Utkin, Voronin had private lessons with Professor Weinberg (dealt with his children). GN Potanin is also often visited him and, thus, "the idea of a trip to the Altai were developed and a Weinberg - writes AA Utkin, Voronin in his memoirs - and the whole company, we agreed to go with Grigoriy the Altai ".
Remarkable in all respects was another joint visit AA Utkino-Voronin, GN Potanin --
historical and ethnographic expedition Karkarala county Steppe Region in 1913 This is the expedition for two months combined, GN Potanin and AA Utkin, Voronin for the collection Kazakh ethnographic materials. AA Utkin, Voronin has made numerous sketches of Kazakh ornament, household items, returning to Tomsk, GN Potanin and his colleagues have devoted the winter of 1913/14, the processing of collected materials. "The final results of the trip were reported, GN Potanin in Omsk at a meeting of members of the West Siberian Department of the Geographical Society on Feb. 10, 1914 r, where AA Utkin-Voronin gave "102 watercolors of various household objects: the carpets, rugs, trunks, clothes, hats, bed, saddle, depicted as a loom and stone women in the foothills of the Kyzyl-Raya"

This is one of her watercolors of the Caucasus in 1929. (Size: 23 x 33. Signed: Tiflis. Voronina-Utkin. 1929.Iyun)

Utkin, Voronina AA My meetings and familiarity with Grigory Potanin. Memoirs. (Archive //Gako RK. F. 1467.
Op. 1. D. 290. L. 1-2.