Bruschetta-Mitrokhin (Bruschetta) Alexandra (Alice) Yakovlevna

January 1, 1872 (Romni Poltava province) - 1942 (Leningrad)

sculptor, painter of decorative and applied arts, painter, graphic artist.

Born in the family of engineer-railwaymen. Art education has received in MUZhViZ, where she studied from 1892 at two offices: the sculpture - in SM Volnukhin and PP Trubetskoy (from 1898), and the picturesque - from I. ; Levitan, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin. From 1902 to 1906 at the invitation of Mamontov was working on a pottery factory Abramtzevo "for Butyrskaya Gate in Moscow, where some time could learn from MAVrubel. The plant has created a stand for hours "Buddha", long considered the product MAVrubel, as well as porcelain figurine "Alyonushka».

From 1906 to 1908 she lived in Tver, where she taught drawing in the business school since 1908 - in St. Petersburg, where he continued his education at the Department of Ceramics Drawing School Society for the Encouragement of Arts. Repeatedly awarded prizes for the plastic, performed in porcelain, majolica, ceramics. Later worked in the ceramic workshop school, worked with art and ceramic workshop PK Vaulina to Kikerine near St. Petersburg. In 1910 she married the well-known graphic artist DI Mitrokhin.

In 1914 he was invited EE Lancere at the Imperial Porcelain Factory. Performed for the relief of porcelain vases. In 1915 she moved to Pskov, has taught composition at the Art and Industry School NF van der Fleet. After the 1917 revolution continued to cooperate with the State Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg (the former Imperial Porcelain Factory), which satisfy several figures, including a statuette of "stove selling things", which enjoyed great popularity and repeatedly replicated. Then created a series of figures ballerinas, and in 1939-1940 - a series of fitness.

In 1942, tragically died in besieged Leningrad.

Works Bruschetta-Mitrokhin are in many museums and private collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, Pushkin Museum im. Pushkin.