Alice Blanch Chehovski was born in Queensland to a Russian mother and Polish father. When her father died leaving three small children to bring up on her own, her took them back to Russia to visit her own parents. In the following fateful year, Stalin came into power and the family was trapped by Russia closing its borders. At the age of twenty three, 1944, Alice entered Moscow's Institute of Decorative Arts and Applied Arts to study ceramics. Neither the subject of ceramics nor the academic drawing in fine pencil inspired her. At that time Moscow was surrounded by German troops, Russian culture was inhibited by the war and generally speaking it was not the time for arts. Alice said 'My soul and my hands were needed as a volunteer, to help the wounded soldiers survive'. Alice struggled through a lifetime of hardship and triumph before returning to her native land of Australia in 1981 at the age of 60.This lithographic print is one of a set of ten produced at Dunmoochin at the time of Clifton Pugh.Print - lithographBottom left of print: ed. no. '4/10' and work title. Bottom right of print: artist signature 'Alice Blanch '04'chehovski, dunmoochin, pugh, garden, evening, lithograph

Possibly donated in 1999Robert Lloydsheep stations - management wool growing squatters, lloyd, mr robert, sheep stations - management, wool growing, squatters

People - "Blair, Lou" Buildings - House Driveway Associated with - Jessie Swainston Collection

Article from Nunawading Standard, 19 August 1981 on the retirement of Johnny Lauder, curator at Vermont Reserve.vermont reserve, parks and reserves, launder, johnny

Digital imagesst brigid's crossley, st brigid's, catholic church, catholic, church, religion, centenary, celebrations, 100, anniversary, commemoration, memorial garden, garden, bishop bird

Colour photographs of Lake Penhalluriack.eureka stockade memorial gardens, eureka stockade, pikeman's dog, sculpture

8 coloured photographs (a-h) of a 'Teddy Day' at the Wisteria festival in 1994nunawading historical society inc, wisteria garden party 1994

Black and white photograph of the Water Feature at the rear of the Nunawading Civic Centre c 1986city of nunawading civic centre, water feature, gardens

This was the first house built in Gregory Street opposite Colpin Ave. The picture shows Lucinda & William Usebach with granddaughters Muriel (Giles) Edna Brown(Newman).gregory street, lucinda usebach, william usebach, building, gardens, persons, private dwelling, costume

Colour photographs of Lake Penhalluriack.On plaque "Lake Penhalluriack 'It has always been my ambition to see the Eureka Stockade - that most jistoric spot in the Commonwealth - preserved in an attractive way; so we will never forget the national sentiment associated with the memory of the struggle of early diggers.' Cr Frank Penhalluriack Mayor 1911-12"eureka stockade memorial gardens, eureka stockade, pikeman's dog, sculpture