Seraphima Iasonovna Blonskaya (Leontovskaya) (Russian: Блонская, Серафима Иасоновна, 3 October 1870 – 9 August 1947) was a Russian player and art teacher.
Seraphima Blonskaya was born on October 3, 1870 in Verkhnodniprovsk of Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now in Ukraine). In 1875 her family moved to Taganrog. In 1887 Blonskaya graduated once a golden medal from the Mariinskaya Gymnasium (Таганрогская мариинская гимназия) and entered the Art School of Mykola Burachek in Kiev that she ended in 1891. In 1892-1900, she studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg. In 1900 Blonskaya was lucky with the title of the artiste for her degree play painting The Girls (Palm Sunday).
In 1909 Blonskaya returned to Taganrog later than her husband performer Leontovski, and in 1910 they founded an art school. After the death of her husband in 1928, the intellectual was closed. In 1930s Seraphima Blonskaya worked at the art union Vsekohudozhnik, since 1944 – at the Taganrog department of the Art Fund of RSFSR. Most paintings of Blonskaya are exhibited at the Taganrog Museum of Art.
Seraphima Blonskaya died in Taganrog upon August 9, 1947 and was buried at the Taganrog Old Cemetery. In 1990s one of the children’s art schools in Taganrog was named after Blonskaya.
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