Marie Vorobieff Marevna...sailor Attable

Marevna Vorobev-Stebelska (Russian: Мария Брониславовна Воробьёва-Стебельская, born 1892 in Cheboksary, Russia, died May 4, 1984 in London) a cubist painter, of Russian origin. Born in Cheboksary in Chuvashia on February 14, 1892, natural daughter of a Polish aristocrat, Viscount Bronislav Stebelski, and of the Jewish artist Maria Rosanovitch, a native of Kazan (who later became the wife of Alexandre Vorobieff with whom she had a other daughter Nina), Marie Vorobiev-Stebelska made her first studies in Tbilisi, then, in 1910, in Moscow, at the Stroganov Academy of Fine Arts where she discovered Italian primitives, impressionism and fauvism. Then begins his nomadic life. Far from the Caucasus and the wild Russian steppes as well as the golden bulbs of the city of Moscow, it was first to Capri that she went in 1911 and met Maxim Gorky who nicknamed her Marevna, named after "the Little Sea Princess” from a Russian fairy tale. She is engaged to Yuri Andreyevich Jeliaboujski, Gorky's adopted son, but the marriage does not take place. However, they remain excellent friends.