She was born in
Saint Petersburg to Olga Yuliyevna Neyman (1836–1922) and Sergey Nikolaevich Kruglikov (1832–1910). Her father was a military officer who was an amateur painter, and her grandfather, Nikolai Alexandrovich Kruglikov (1788–1868), was a professional painter. In 1880, she lived with her father in
Poltava, where she first met artists associated with the
Peredvizhniki and decided on art as a career. From 1890 to 1895, she attended classes at the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where she studied with
Illarion Pryanishnikov,
Sergei Korovin and
Abram Arkhipov. In 1895, she continued her studies in Paris at the
Académie Colarossi and the
Académie Vitti. She set up her own studio in 1900 and, from 1902, studied etching with Joseph-Victor Roux-Champion (1871–1953). After 1909, she was also a teacher at the
Académie de La Palette. This was a predecessor to the State Central Puppet Theater established by
Sergey Obraztsov in 1931. From 1922 to 1929, she was a professor at the
Higher Art and Technical Studios (formerly the
Imperial Academy of Arts), where she taught theatrical and decorative painting. She also designed posters and published a popular series of silhouettes,
Poets, followed by another on
Leaders of the Revolution. and paintings by
Mikhail Nesterov in 1938 and 1939. Inactive throughout much of the 1930s, she went to Moscow in 1939 to help organize an exhibition featuring works by the former members of
Mir Iskusstva. She was known for reviving older etching and printing techniques, such as the
mezzotint and
aquatint, but was especially well known for monotypes. == Family ==