Larissa Salmina-Haskell Explained

Larissa Salmina-Haskell
Birth Name:	Larissa Salmina
Birth Date:	1931
Alma Mater:	Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts
Occupation:	Art historian, curator, translator
Spouse:	Francis Haskell (married 1965)

Larissa Salmina-Haskell (née Salmina; 1931-2024)^[1] was a Russian art historian, curator, and translator.^{[2] [3] [4]} She was a noted historian of Venetian art and "a great scholar".^[5]

Life

Larissa Salmina was born in Russia in 1931, the daughter of a Soviet army officer from a noble family.^[6] She graduated from the Leningrad Academy of Fine Arts in 1954, three years later becoming curator of Italian drawings at the Hermitage Museum.^[7]

Salmina married art historian Francis Haskell in Leningrad in 1965, having met him in 1962 while working as commissar at the Venice Biennale.^[8] She moved to England to live with him. They were described as being "inseparable" for the remainder of Francis Haskell's life.^[9] The Times wrote that the couple "seemed to be familiar with every museum and monument in Europe and America, and their house in Oxford became the heart of an international network of personal and professional friendships".^[10]

In 1970, Salmina-Haskell published Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, which was republished in 1989.

She assisted Richard Buckle with a biography of Serge Diaghilev, lending translation support and art history context.^[11] She also helped with works on other Russian figures such as Anatole Demidoff, and works including Isaiah Berlin's The Soviet Mind: Russian Culture Under Communism.^{[12] [13]}

Select bibliography

• G.B Tiepolo: Life and Work (Leningrad, 1963)
• 'Two Drawings by Francesco Vanni' in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 109, No. 775 (October 1967)
• Russian Paintings and Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1970)
• 'Venetian Drawings at the Heim Gallery' in The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 114, No. 828 (March 1972)
• Russian Drawings in the Victoria and Albert Museum (Oxford Slavonic Papers, 1972)
• 'St. Petersburg in Oxford' in Oxford Art Journal, Volume 1, Issue 1 (1 March 1978)
• 'A Scandinavian Printmaker in Russia' in Print Quarterly, Vol. 3, No. 1 (March 1986)
• Panoramic Views of St. Petersburg from 1716-1835 (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 1993)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Larissa Haskell . The British Museum.
2. Web site: Larisa Salmina Haskell . 2024-11-07 . www.clarkart.edu.
3. Web site: Haskell, Francis James Herbert (1928–2000), art historian . 2024-11-07 . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . en . 10.1093/ref:odnb/73649.
4. Korshunova . Miliza . Haskell . Larissa . 1974 . William Hastie in Russia . Architectural History . 17 . 14–56 . 10.2307/1568342 . 0066-622X.
5. Griener . Pascal . 2001 . Francis James Herbert Haskell (April 7, 1928-January 18, 2000) . Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte . 64 . 2 . 299–303 . 0044-2992.
6. Web site: Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent - Iain Pears - eBook . 2024-11-07 . Harper Collins New Zealand . en-NZ.
7. Book: Salmina-Haskell, Larissa . Russian paintings and drawings in the Ashmolean Museum . 1989 . Ashmolean Museum . Ashmolean Museum . 978-0-907849-95-7 . Rev., expanded, and illustrated . Oxford.
8. Web site: Francis Haskell Papers (1816-1999) Archive National Gallery, London . 2024-11-07 . www.nationalgallery.org.uk.
9. News: White . Christopher . 2000-01-21 . Francis Haskell . 2024-11-07 . The Guardian . en-GB . 0261-3077.
10. News: 21 January 2000 . Professor Francis Haskell . . 27.
11. Book: Buckle, Richard . Diaghilev . 1984 . New York : Atheneum . Internet Archive . 978-0-689-70664-6.
12. Book: Anatole Demidoff Prince of Dan Donato, (1812-70) . 1994 . Trustees of the Wallace Collection . Internet Archive . 978-0-900785-40-5 . London.
13. Book: Berlin, Isaiah . The Soviet mind: Russian culture under communism . Hardy . Henry . 2004 . Brookings Institution Press . 978-0-8157-0904-6 . Washington (D.C.).