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Nathalie Stanislavsky is the descendant of a long line of Russian painters. Her first known artistic ancestor was Peter Feodorovich Sokolov, a well known watercolorist who was active in St. Petersburg at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.
He was the co-founder of the St. Petersburg Academy of Art. He married the sister of the world famous Russian-French painter Karl Brulow whose paintings can be found in many museums including the Louvre.
This marriage produced three sons who became painters: two were painters at the Imperial Court and one a recorder of Russian country life and an illustrator of some of Tolstoy’s and Chekhov’s works.
The artistic gene was passed on to Peter Sokolov’s granddaughter, Elizabeth Sokolov Rodzevich as well as to her granddaughter; greatgranddaugher; and finally greatgreatgranddaugher, Nathalie Stanislavsky.
Nathalie was born in Paris where her antecedents fled during the Russian Revolution. At the age of 15, Nathalie came to the United State to live with her aunt Nathalie Von Meyer Clarkson, another product of the above-mentioned artistic loin-breeding.
Nathalie studied painting and photography at the Montgomery College of Art and MICA (Maryland Institute College of Art) and has been applying her knowledge at a number of art galleries and including extensive work experience at the National Geographic Foundation experimenting with her own artistic style.
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