Day of the day: Vera Mukhina
On July 1, 1889, Vera Mukhina, a sculptor, a folk artist of the USSR was born. Personal business Vera Ignatievna Mukhina (1889 - 1953) was born in Riga in a wealthy merchant family. When Vera was two years old, her mother died of tuberculosis, and her father took the girl to Feodosia, where her childhood passed. Vera and her sister Maria girls were raised by her mother A.S. Sobolevskaya. Mukhina began engaging in the visual arts in Feodosia.