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.
Brailovskaya was buried in the Russian part of the Roman Catholic cemetery of Campo Verano.
Bibliography
Vladimir Kolupaev "Publications of Russian diaspora about the work of the architect L. Brailovsky in Rome". Proceedings of the conference on the 250th anniversary of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, 24–25 November 2008 St. Petersburg.: Arts, 2008.
Vladimir Kolupaev "Russian artists Leonid and Rimma Brailovsky in Russia and Rome" in Russian in Italy. Italntsy in Russia: the interaction of cultures. St. Petersburg, 2012. pp. 50–78. ISBN978-5-9227-0364-2
Rigotti, G. (a cura di) "Leonid e Rimma Brailovskij. Visioni della vecchia Russia | Леонид и Римма Браиловскиe. Видения Cтарой Руси", Congregazione per le Chiese Orientali, Musei Vaticani, Valore Italiano Editore. Città del Vaticano, 2021. ISBN 978-88-97789-92-5. (www.valoreitalianobookstore.com)