Гелиос

1912–1914

Life and study in Paris

Mukhina lives in Paris, attending the private Colarossi studio and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, where she studies with the sculptor Émile Antoine Bourdelle.

1914

The hospital and the meeting with Aleksey Zamkov

After completing nursing courses, Mukhina began working in a military hospital, where she met a young military doctor, Aleksey Zamkov.

until summer 1914

Italy and the return to Moscow on the eve of the war

After Paris, Mukhina travels through Italy, studying the sculpture and painting of the Renaissance; she returned to Moscow in the summer of 1914, only weeks before the outbreak of the First World War.

1915–1916

Assistant to Aleksandra Ekster at the Chamber Theatre

In 1915 and 1916 Mukhina worked as assistant to Aleksandra Ekster at Alexander Tairov's Chamber Theatre in Moscow.