Rimma Nikitichna Brailovskaya

Rimma Nikitichna Brailovskaya (14 April 1877, Tartu, Russian Empire – 28 September 1959, Rome, Italy) was a Russian painter. She worked in the genres of landscapes and genre paintings using in watercolor and tempera. She also worked created embroidery and applique. She was a participant of the Russian apostolate in Diaspora.

Biography

Brailovskaya was daughter of a general. In 1898 she married the artist Leonid Brailovsky, who lived in Moscow. Known as an independent artist, she participated together with her husband in the implementation of joint projects. In 1900 she taught art at Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry. In 1918 the Brailovsky family emigrated, first to Constantinople and then to Belgrade; from 1925 they were settled in Rome.

Conversion to Catholicism

Brailovskaya and her husband were Russian Orthodox and later joined the Catholic Church. The couple were close to the bishops Michel d'Herbigny, Alexander Evreinov ,and Andrei Katkov. In 1933 she participated in the creation of the Museum of Russian religious art at the Congregation for the Oriental Churches in the Vatican, where they exposed Brailovsky's paintings from the series "Visions of Old Russia." From 1920 to 1940, her paintings were exhibited in Russicum, where she taught Russian language, this time talking with the poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, Archpriest Alexander Sipiagin and Tatyana Sukhotina-Tolstaya.

Death

Brailovskaya was buried in the Russian part of the Roman Catholic cemetery of Campo Verano.