[2] Bogaevskaya was born October 25, 1915, in Petrograd in the family of scientist, archaeologist, and art historian.

Then continued education in the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she was a student of Sergei Priselkov, Genrikh Pavlovsky, David Bernshtein, and Alexander Osmerkin (1933–1940).

[3] In 1940 Bogaevskaya married a fellow student at the institute artist Gleb Savinov.

The leading theme of her work - child portrait, still life in the interior and exterior.

[4] Among Bogaevskaya's most famous works are paintings "The Breakfast", "Cadets" (both 1947), "Peaceful sleep"[5] (1951), "Still Life with Strawberries", "Girls", "Flowers.