Anna Golubkina was one of Russia’s most famous sculptresses. She was born in Zaraisk in 1864 and at the age of 25 she decided to become a sculptress, despite not having any previous formal education. She studied in Moscow, St Petersburg and Paris and at one point was an assistant to the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin. Her most famous work is the bas-relief entitled The Wave on the facade of Moscow Art Academic Theatre (MKhAT) and she has other work on display at Moscow’s Tretyakov Gallery. In her later life she returned to Zaraisk where she died in 1927. The house where she lived was opened as a house museum in 1974 and shows the interior of her house and examples of her work