The portrait of Tanya Korsakova was painted by the Moscow artist Alexey Zhabsky in 1979.

From 1964, Alexey Zhabsky worked in Uglich every summer, creating historical paintings depicting everyday life for large exhibitions and central museums, as well as cityscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes. It is notable that Zhabsky only became fascinated with portraits in Uglich. When he first arrived there, he wrote to his wife,

Alexey Zhabsky also visited Uglich together with his wife. The artist’s paintings were inspired by the life of the monastery yard. Zhabsky often worked in the open air, in front of curious onlookers: neighbors, postmen, children, and elders. Every visit of the couple was a major event for this provincial city, introducing new colors and entertainment into its slow-paced life. At the end of summer and the beginning of fall, local children organized farewell concerts for the Zhabskys, and the city newspaper once published an article, praising the guests,

Two sister singers — Larisa and Tanya — also took part in these concerts. The latter sat for the painter several times. Her portrait became one of the best images of children in the painter’s oeuvre. Zhabsky portrayed an active and somewhat cheeky teenage girl. During this transitional stage between childhood and adulthood, her personality shows stronger than her cuteness as a little girl or her future charm as a young woman. The artist was inspired not by tenderness but by the courage and hidden defiance that he had seen in that young girl.

Zhabsky painted several dozen portraits in the city and can rightly be named the second historical Uglich portraitist after the collegiate registrar Ivan Tarkhanov who lived in the 19th century.