Name from a postcard Elizaveta Merkuryevna Boehm (251 works)

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Elizaveta Merkuryevna Boehm (nee Endaurova, 1843-1914) - artist, draftsman, silhouette painter.

She came from an old family. Her ancestors, Tatars, bore the surname Indigir, which meant “Indian rooster.” By a charter granted to the family by Ivan III, the surname was changed to Endaurov.

Elizaveta Merkurievna was born in St. Petersburg and spent her childhood on the Endaurov family estate in the village of Shchiptsy, Poshekhonsky district, Yaroslavl province. From 1857 to 1864 studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists in St. Petersburg, graduating with a silver medal. In 1867, she married Ludwig Franzevich Boehm, the marriage was happy, and the couple had several children.

In 1875 she created the album of postcards “Silhouettes”, and in 1877 - the album “Silhouettes from the lives of children”. Both albums were printed by the Cartographic Establishment of A.A. Ilyin, who was her uncle. In 1880 she created the album “Pie”, in 1882 - “From Village Memories”. In 1907, two albums of postcards, “A Little Bit of Everything” and “For a Dear Friend, Even an Earring,” were published by I. S. Lapin in Paris.

She drew postcards and illustrated children's magazines "Igrushechka" (1882-1886) and "Malyutka" (1886-1887), and illustrated the Russian folk tale "Turnip" (1882). She created children's albums “Proverbs in Silhouettes” (1884), “Sayings and Sayings in Silhouettes” (1885), “ABC”. She illustrated the fables of A. I. Krylov and “Notes of a Hunter” by I. S. Turgenev.

For her work, the artist received several international awards. Elizaveta Merkuryevna's works (since 1868) participated in international exhibitions - in Paris (1900), Munich (1902), Milan (1906) - and received medals everywhere. In Milan, the artist received a gold medal.