The portrait of the merchant’s wife Fedosya Rusakova-Fedorovskaya was painted by an unknown artist around the 1840s. He portrayed the woman at a young age.
She has small facial features, her brown-green eyes are slightly lowered. The merchant’s wife dark hair is middle-parted, gently falling on both sides and curled, leaving her ears open. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya slightly turned her head to the left. It was meant that from this side, there would be a portrait of her husband, Vasily Rusakov. This painting is also in the museum’s collection. This is how the artists portrayed the spouses-merchants in paired paintings.
In the portrait, Rusakova-Fedorovskaya has her right cheek turned towards the viewer. In her ear, one can see a gilded earring of a complex shape, incrusted with a green pebble. The head of the model is covered with a small headdress of a smoky shade, without decorations. The merchant’s wife is dressed in a dark blue and green dress with wide puffy sleeves gathered at the cuffs. The neckline is decorated with embroidered gauze — a light semitransparent fabric. The neck is accessorized with a pearl necklace consisting of a set of additional pearl strands and with an agrafe, a figured brooch-clasp. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya’s hands are folded according to a merchant etiquette gesture: the right one covers the left. On the left hand, the artist depicted one ring, and on the right hand — two rings. Behind the model’s back is an oval back of a chair.
The artist depicted in the picture the attributes relevant to a merchant’s wife’s portrait. A pattern is embossed on a silk semitransparent shawl worn by the portrayed over her shoulders, and its ends are decorated with tassels. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya holds another accessory in her hands. Such handkerchiefs were called “shirinka”. They complemented the female festive costume, and in the portraits, they symbolized the sensibility and softness of the heroine.
Fedosya Rusakova, nee Fedorovskaya, was born in 1825. When she married Vasily Rusakov, he was a tradesman — a small trader — and later, became a merchant of the 1st guild and hereditary honorary citizen. In 1888 — 1891, Rusakov served as the mayor.
Paired portraits of the Rusakov merchant family were included in the museum’s collection in 1974, after the death of their grandson, Georgy Rusakov. A year later, they were restored in the workshops of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve.
She has small facial features, her brown-green eyes are slightly lowered. The merchant’s wife dark hair is middle-parted, gently falling on both sides and curled, leaving her ears open. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya slightly turned her head to the left. It was meant that from this side, there would be a portrait of her husband, Vasily Rusakov. This painting is also in the museum’s collection. This is how the artists portrayed the spouses-merchants in paired paintings.
In the portrait, Rusakova-Fedorovskaya has her right cheek turned towards the viewer. In her ear, one can see a gilded earring of a complex shape, incrusted with a green pebble. The head of the model is covered with a small headdress of a smoky shade, without decorations. The merchant’s wife is dressed in a dark blue and green dress with wide puffy sleeves gathered at the cuffs. The neckline is decorated with embroidered gauze — a light semitransparent fabric. The neck is accessorized with a pearl necklace consisting of a set of additional pearl strands and with an agrafe, a figured brooch-clasp. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya’s hands are folded according to a merchant etiquette gesture: the right one covers the left. On the left hand, the artist depicted one ring, and on the right hand — two rings. Behind the model’s back is an oval back of a chair.
The artist depicted in the picture the attributes relevant to a merchant’s wife’s portrait. A pattern is embossed on a silk semitransparent shawl worn by the portrayed over her shoulders, and its ends are decorated with tassels. Rusakova-Fedorovskaya holds another accessory in her hands. Such handkerchiefs were called “shirinka”. They complemented the female festive costume, and in the portraits, they symbolized the sensibility and softness of the heroine.
Fedosya Rusakova, nee Fedorovskaya, was born in 1825. When she married Vasily Rusakov, he was a tradesman — a small trader — and later, became a merchant of the 1st guild and hereditary honorary citizen. In 1888 — 1891, Rusakov served as the mayor.
Paired portraits of the Rusakov merchant family were included in the museum’s collection in 1974, after the death of their grandson, Georgy Rusakov. A year later, they were restored in the workshops of the Vladimir-Suzdal Museum-Reserve.
