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Vera Savvchna Mamontova married Samarin (October 20, 1875 - December 27, 1907) - a representative of the famous Russian merchant dynasty, model painting by Valentin Serov "Girl with peaches", which posed at the age of 12 years. It was also written by Viktor Vasnetsov, Nikolai Kuznetsov, Mikhail Vrubel

Model of pictures
Vsevolod Mamontov, Vera's elder brother, recalled: "He was touchingly friendly with my sisters, who were much younger than him, and at the same time he surprisingly good-naturedly endured all their leprosy ... from pearls of Russian portrait painting. Only thanks to his friendship, Serov managed to persuade my sister Vera to pose for him. Twelve year old a cheerful, lively girl on a fine summer day so pulls on to the will, to run, to fool around. And then sit in the room at the table, and even move less. This work of Serov required many sessions, I had to pose for a long time for my sister. Yes, Anton himself acknowledged the slowness of his work, he was very tormented by this and later told his sister that he was her unpaid debtor. ”

Vasnetsov, recalling the creation of his painting “Alyonushka”, wrote like this: “... But I don’t hide that I looked at the features of my face very much, especially at the shining eyes of Vermona Mamontova, when he wrote Alyonushka” [1].

The figure Vrubel appears as "Tamara in a coffin"

Family
Husband - Alexander Dmitrievich Samarin. The marriage took place on January 26, 1903, after a long resistance of the groom's kin, since his family was noble.

Children: Yuri (1904–1965), philologist Elizabeth, in the marriage of Chernyshev (1905-1985), author of memoirs. Sergey (1907–1913)

Died from transient pneumonia. In memory of her death, her widower built the Trinity Church in the vicinity of Pavlovsky Posad [4]. Vera herself buried in the estate of her father, near the Abramtsevo Church