Elisabeth Boehm

[3][4] She was born in Saint Petersburg to a noble Russian family of Endaurov (Эндауров) of Tatar origin.

At the age of 14 she entered the School of Painting at the Society for Promotion of Artists (Школа Поощрения Художеств) where she studied under Ivan Kramskoi and Pavel Chistyakov.

[6] She took private lessons from Kramskoi and studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts where she was awarded a Large Encouragement Medal for her animal paintings.

[6] She married a prominent Russian-Hungarian violinist Ludwig Boehm, professor of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory.

[5] Elisabeth painted many watercolors, illustrated children books of the Folk Library (Народная библиотека) series there she was introduced by Leo Tolstoy.