Theodora Krarup

Anna Theodora Ferdinanda Alexandra Krarup (1862–1941) was a Danish portrait painter who was a student of Viggo Johansen at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and of Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant in Paris. She is remembered for the many years she spent in Saint Petersburg before and after the Russian Revolution where in particular she painted portraits of Grigori Rasputin. After returning to Denmark in 1938, she recounted her experiences to the journalist William Haste who published extracts of her memoirs in the Sunday editions of Berlingske Tidende. The full version was published as a book shortly after her death in 1941. The Danish version 42 aar i Czarriget og Sovjet was later translated into English as 42 years in the realm of the Czar and the Soviets.

Early life and education Born on 21 September 1862 on the Scheelenborg Estate on the island of Funen, Anna Theodora Ferdinanda Alexandra Krarup was the daughter of the estate manager Gottlieb Ferdinandy Krarup (1819–83) and his wife Anne née Jensen (1831–98).

Theodora Krarup died in Copenhagen on 23 April 1941.