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Postcard ”Listen, who is speaking? The one who has been sad about you for a long time!” Artist: Elizaveta Merkuryevna Boehm. Publisher: Richard, St. Petersburg. Russian Empire before 1917. - Golike and Vilborg Partnership. No. 25. Pure (Catalog of the Krepostnov Publishing House No. 224). Format 9 x 14 cm Elizaveta Merkurievna Boehm (née Endaurova, 1843-1914) — artist, draftswoman, silhouette artist. She came from an old family. Her ancestors, Tatars, bore the surname Indigir, meaning ”Indian rooster”. By a charter granted to the family by Ivan III, the surname was changed to Endaurov. Elizaveta Merkurievna was born in St. Petersburg, spent her childhood in the Endaurov family estate in the village of Shchiptsy, Poshekhonsky district, Yaroslavl province. From 1857 to 1864 She studied at the Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists in St. Petersburg, graduating with a silver medal. In 1867, she married Ludwig Franzevich Boehm, a happy marriage that produced several children.