The portrait of Anna Borodinskaya was added to the museum exhibit in 2008. It was painted by the artist Gennady Ratanov by the order of the Yalutorovsk Museum Complex. The painter made the portrait from a photograph of an unknown photographer in 1860. The original is kept in the Sverdlovsk Museum of Local Lore; it was donated to the museum fund by descendants of the Yalutorovsk merchant Nikolai Balakshin.
The portrait depicts a girl in a white sweater with a lace collar, a red and black scarf is draped over her left arm.
Anna Borodinskaya was the daughter of a poor town woman named Borodinskaya who died in Yalutorovsk. The girl was at that time two weeks old. The archpriest of the Sretensky Cathedral Stepan Znamensky christened her under the name Matryona and brought her to the house of Matvey Muravyov-Apostol, gave her to the wife of the Decembrist Maria Konstantinovna. The family of the Decembrist was delighted with the baby, but the spouses did not like the name Matryona. They called the girl Annushka after the Decembrist’s mother, who died when she was 16 years old. The girl grew up humble and affectionate. She was the favorite not only of the spouses of the Muravyov-Apostols, but also of all close friends of the family. The girl, just like another pupil named Avgusta Sozonovich, was brought up as an aristocrat not only in line with noble etiquette, they instilled the rules of good manners, but also taught literacy, foreign languages, and music. Anna Borodinskaya was homeschooled, graduated from a school for girls opened by the Decembrist Ivan Yakushkin. In 1856, amnesty was declared, but the Decembrists pardoned by the authorities were not allowed to live in Moscow or in St. Petersburg. For this reason the Muravyov-Apostol family moved to Tver. There Anna Borodinskaya took vocal lessons, since she had a beautiful voice. In 1860, Borodinskaya, as well as the second pupil of the Muravyov-Apostles, Avgusta Sozonovich, could be called Matveyeva by the name of their guardian. At the age of twenty, Anna-Borodinskaya got married, she gave birth to a son, but soon fell ill and died. The boy was named Sergei, the Muravyov-Apostols raised him as their own grandson.
The portrait depicts a girl in a white sweater with a lace collar, a red and black scarf is draped over her left arm.
Anna Borodinskaya was the daughter of a poor town woman named Borodinskaya who died in Yalutorovsk. The girl was at that time two weeks old. The archpriest of the Sretensky Cathedral Stepan Znamensky christened her under the name Matryona and brought her to the house of Matvey Muravyov-Apostol, gave her to the wife of the Decembrist Maria Konstantinovna. The family of the Decembrist was delighted with the baby, but the spouses did not like the name Matryona. They called the girl Annushka after the Decembrist’s mother, who died when she was 16 years old. The girl grew up humble and affectionate. She was the favorite not only of the spouses of the Muravyov-Apostols, but also of all close friends of the family. The girl, just like another pupil named Avgusta Sozonovich, was brought up as an aristocrat not only in line with noble etiquette, they instilled the rules of good manners, but also taught literacy, foreign languages, and music. Anna Borodinskaya was homeschooled, graduated from a school for girls opened by the Decembrist Ivan Yakushkin. In 1856, amnesty was declared, but the Decembrists pardoned by the authorities were not allowed to live in Moscow or in St. Petersburg. For this reason the Muravyov-Apostol family moved to Tver. There Anna Borodinskaya took vocal lessons, since she had a beautiful voice. In 1860, Borodinskaya, as well as the second pupil of the Muravyov-Apostles, Avgusta Sozonovich, could be called Matveyeva by the name of their guardian. At the age of twenty, Anna-Borodinskaya got married, she gave birth to a son, but soon fell ill and died. The boy was named Sergei, the Muravyov-Apostols raised him as their own grandson.
