RUSSIAN SCHOOL, 19TH CENTURY Portrait of Anna Petrovna Kern

watercolour on paper 22,5 x 18 cm Anna Petrovna Kern (1800 -1879) was a Russian aristocrat and memoirist, best known for her association with the poet Alexander Pushkin. Her memoirs, pub-lished posthumously, provide valuable first-hand recollections of Pushkin and Russian literary life of the period.