Attributed to Mariamna Adrianovna Davydoff, Russian, 1871 to 1961, a watercolor painting on paper titled Promenade du soir. Inscribed lower left. With a sketch on the back. It was after Davydoff emigrated from Russia to France in 1919 that she set down her detailed recollections and painted the accompanying watercolors. She did this mainly to enlighten one of her granddaughters about the familys life in the last decades of Tsarist Russia. Russian Paintings And Art Collectibles.