Elena Mrozovskaya

Elena Lukinichna Mrozovskaya or Helène de Mrosovsky (; ; ) was a Russian and Soviet professional photographer of Montenegrin descent.

Life and career Mrozovskaya's ex-husband, Bronislav (after accepting orthodoxy in 1904 - Vladimir) Pavlovich Mrozovsky, was a mechanical engineer and painter, and his uncle (possible), , became the military governor-general of Moscow from 1915 to 1917. Mrozovskaya herself was originally a teacher and sales clerk. She studied photography at the Russian Technical Society, finishing in 1892, and then continued her studies with Nadar in Paris.

Photography Mrozovskaya's subjects included Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and was sent to the Hermitage Rooms of Somerset House in London in 2003, as part of a traveling exhibit celebrating St. Petersburg's tricentennial. Another of her tinted photos, "Portrait of girl in Little Russia costume", is in the collection of the Moscow House of Photography, and was exhibited in Amsterdam in early 2013 as part of an exhibit organized by the Russian Ministry of Culture. Many photos by Mrozovskaya are kept in the collection of the St. Petersburg Conservatory,