The artist is Yaroshenko
A large place in Yaroshenko’s work is occupied by female images, portraits of pursuists – students of higher women’s educational institutions. The artist’s wife studied on the Bestuzhev courses based in St. Petersburg in 1878 in the natural department and for many years took part in their fate as a member of the board of society to deliver funds to courses; It was a friend of the pits. The picture attracts vital truth, simplicity, persuasiveness of the characteristics of a somewhat embarrassed, shy teenage girl, in the appearance of which is spiritual purity and spontaneity