High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yelena Dmitrievna Polenova (Russian: Елена Дмитриевна Поленова; 27 November 1850 Saint Petersburg - 19 November 1898 Moscow) was a Russian painter and designer, sister of Vasily Polenov. She studied under Pavel Chistyakov from 1859 to 1870. In 1864 she studied under Ivan Kramskoi in St Petersburg, and from 1869 to 1870 in the studio of Charles Chaplin in Paris.