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Applied artist, designer, teacher. Born in the family of icon-painter Mefody Shulpin and needlewoman E. F. Dmitriyeva in the village of Mstiora in Vladimir Province (1913). Studied white-satin stitching under her mother (1920s). Worked at the Nadezhda Krupskaya Embroidery Artel in Mstiora (1928–39, artistic director from 1936) and the Communard Artel in Vladimir (1939–41). Returned to the Nadezhd...