Larissa Salmina-Haskell (née Salmina; 1931 – 28 April 2024)[1][2] was a Russian art historian, curator, and translator.
[7] She graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts in 1954, three years later becoming curator of Italian drawings at the Hermitage Museum.
[8][4] Salmina married art historian Francis Haskell in Leningrad in 1965, having met him in 1962 while working as commissar at the Venice Biennale.
[4][10] The Times wrote that the couple "seemed to be familiar with every museum and monument in Europe and America, and their house in Oxford became the heart of an international network of personal and professional friendships".
[8] She assisted Richard Buckle with a biography of Serge Diaghilev, lending translation support and art history context.