Gravestone of a Woman's Bust

This sculpture is a simple bust of a young woman called Asenkovoi. She appears very traditional, clothing covering her completely and hair braided beautifully. The State Museum of City Sculptures was founded in 1932 dedicated to the study, restoration and protection of city sculptures and gravestones and the museum is responsible for the upkeep of many of St Petersburg's most famous sculptures. The museum has several branches around St Petersburg, but the main ones are concentrated within the former territory of the Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra which was granted to the museum upon its founding. The Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra's Tikhvinskoe Cemetery was established in 1823 and named after the Our Lady of Tikhvin Church which was built here between 1869 and 1873. In 1931 the church was closed and in 1932 the cemetery became a branch of the State Museum of City Sculptures, known as the Necropolis of Masters of Culture. The branch is so named as many leading figures of Russian culture have been laid to rest here including: writers Fyodor Dostoevsky, Nikolai Karamzin and Ivan Krylov; composers Aleksandr Borodin, Mikhail Glinka, Modest Musorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Pyotr Tchaikovsky; and artists Boris Kustodiev, Ivan Kramskoy and Ivan Shishkin, among many more famous names.这件雕塑是一尊名为阿森科沃伊（Asenkovoi）的年轻女子的简约半身像。其造型尽显传统风貌，身着全裹式服饰，发丝梳编得精巧雅致。 城市雕塑国家博物馆（State Museum of City Sculptures）始建于1932年，其设立宗旨为研究、修复与保护城市雕塑及墓碑，同时负责圣彼得堡诸多知名雕塑的养护工作。 该博物馆在圣彼得堡市内设有多处分馆，其中主要分馆均集中于亚历山大·涅夫斯基修道院（Aleksandro-Nevsky Lavra）旧址范围内，该旧址于博物馆创立之初便划归其使用。 亚历山大·涅夫斯基修道院的季赫温公墓（Tikhvinskoe Cemetery）始建于1823年，其名称源自1869年至1873年间在此修建的季赫温圣母教堂（Our Lady of Tikhvin Church）。 该教堂于1931年被关闭，1932年，这座公墓成为城市雕塑国家博物馆的分馆，名为“文化大师墓园”（Necropolis of Masters of Culture）。 该分馆以此命名，是因为诸多俄罗斯文化界翘楚均长眠于此，其中包括：作家费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基（Fyodor Dostoevsky）、尼古拉·卡拉姆津（Nikolai Karamzin）与伊万·克雷洛夫（Ivan Krylov）；作曲家亚历山大·鲍罗丁（Aleksandr Borodin）、米哈伊尔·格林卡（Mikhail Glinka）、莫杰斯特·穆索尔斯基（Modest Musorgsky）、尼古拉·里姆斯基-科萨科夫（Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov）与彼得·柴可夫斯基（Pyotr Tchaikovsky）；以及艺术家鲍里斯·库斯托季耶夫（Boris Kustodiev）、伊万·克拉姆斯柯依（Ivan Kramskoy）与伊万·希施金（Ivan Shishkin）等众多知名人士。