Natalia Polenova

She is an expert on Russian painting from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a specialist of French culture and a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM Russia).

[4] She is married to the Russian poet Yuri Kublanovsky,[5] who lived as a political exile for numerous years in France and who was awarded with the literary prize Soljenitsyne in 2003.

In 2010, in the context of the crossed year France-Russia, she takes part in the organisation of French-Russian programs, including the project "Russian artists and French publishing houses - end of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century art the Salon Livre Paris.

Since her official appointment as the director of the museum-house Polenovo after her mother in 2011, Natalya Polenova shows a vivid interest in perpetuating family traditions, while seeking to establish international partnerships in order to transmit Vasily Polenov's legacy beyond Russian borders.

Another important event was the unveiling, on 6 October 2018, in Paris, at Montmartre, 31 rue Véron, of a commemorative plaque to honour Russian painters of the itinerant movement, Vasily Polenov and Ilya Repin.

[31] In 2018 and 2019, Natalya Polenova organises exhibitions on the history of the Polenovo domain during the stalinist era, with the historian Gabriel Superfin.

Natalya Polenova produced the following documentaries: After the premieres on the Russian TV channel Culture,[33][34] several projections are organised in the United-States, in Great-Britain, in Israel, in France, in Germany.

[35] From the beginning of the quarantine caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Natalya Polenova launches the project polenovostream, an online channel offering short videos on curious objects preserved in the museum.