Varvara Matveevna Baruzdina (Russian: Варвара Матвеевна Баруздина; 1862, Krasny Kholm – 1941, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian Realist painter, primarily of genre scenes.

In 1875, she moved to Saint Petersburg to live with her uncle, the painter Pavel Chistyakov, who provided her first drawing lessons.

[1] Five years later, she entered the Imperial Academy of Arts where she became his formal student.

In the 1920s, after spending some time in Crimea, she moved into Chistyakov's house in the Pushkin District, where she wrote memoirs of his life and attracted a circle of students who wanted to be taught by his methods.

[1] She was killed by German soldiers, during the early part of the Siege of Leningrad, while trying to prevent them from looting her home.