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Postcard ”Lovers quarrel only to amuse themselves”. Artist: Elizaveta Merkuryevna Boehm. Russian Empire before 1917. Published by Richard, No. 2. Saint Petersburg. - Golike and Vilborg Partnership. Pure (Catalogue of the publishing house ”Krepostnov” No. 127). Format 9 x 14 cm Elizaveta Merkuryevna 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 the charter granted to the family by Ivan III, the surname was changed to Endaurovs. Elizaveta Merkuryevna was born in St. Petersburg and spent her childhood in the Endaurov family estate in the village of Shchiptsy in the Poshekhonsky district of the 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. The marriage was a happy one, and the couple had several children.