Maria Dmitreyevna Raevskaia-Ivanova (1840 - 1912)

Maria Dmitreyevna Raevskaia-Ivanova

Maria Dmitreyevna Raevskaia-Ivanova (Russian: Мария Дмитриевна Раевская-Иванова) was a Russian artist of the last third of the 19th and early 20th centuries. She is known as a painter and teacher and as the first woman in the Russian Empire to be awarded the title of artist by the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts.

Maria Raevskaia-Ivanova worked in oil and watercolor in various genres, created portraits, including group portraits, landscapes, and still lifes. She is considered a representative of academism. The artist was the author of the textbook "The ABCs of Drawing for Family and School", as well as a number of articles and brochures on artistic and pedagogical issues.