Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva

[1] She studied painting at the Stieglitz School of Technical Drawing, and subsequently at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Ilya Repin.

[2] In 1900, Ostroumova graduated from the academy, specializing on graphics, and at the same year joined the Mir iskusstva art group in Saint Petersburg.

[1] In 1901, she produced the first series of woodcuts with Saint Petersburg cityscapes, ordered by Sergei Diaghilev.

[2] Since 1934, she worked as a professor in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Architecture, and Sculpture.

[1] The main topic of her graphic works, both woodcuts and watercolors, were cityscapes of Saint Petersburg.