Chernobrova-Timenchik Susanna (29.10.1945, Riga) — artist, poet. Born into the family of the well-known Riga lawyer Yakov Chernobrov. Mother Rakhil (née Rosenthal) — economist. In 1962, graduated from Secondary School No. 17 in Riga. Studied at the physics and mathematics faculty of the University of Latvia, graduating in 1969 with a specialisation in theoretical physics. In 1975, enrolled at the correspondence faculty of the Higher People's University of Arts in Moscow, graduating in 1979. In 1970–71, worked as a research fellow at the Institute of Light Industry; in 1972–73 — at the LatINTI library. Ch. began her creative career as a poet, before turning to painting. In 1974–78, led a children's painting studio at the House of Culture; in 1980–84, worked as an artist at the Theatre for Young Audiences. Throughout these years, she gave private painting lessons. Since 1991, lives in Israel, in Jerusalem. She teaches painting at various cultural centres in Jerusalem, gives lectures on art history, and gives private painting lessons. In Jerusalem, Ch. returned to poetry and became a member of the Union of Russian-language Writers of Israel. She is the artist of the “Jerusalem Journal” (a journal of modern Israeli literature in Russian, published since 1999). Personal exhibitions by Ch. and group exhibitions in which she participated have been held in the USSR (her first personal exhibition was in Moscow, 1977), Israel, Latvia, Finland and Czechoslovakia. In the 1970s–80s, she participated in Moscow exhibitions of unofficial art. Ch.'s poetry has been published in the journals “Zvezda” (Moscow, 1997, No. 3; 1998, No. 10; 2001, No. 11, etc.), “Daugava” (Riga, 1998, No. 2), and in the journal “Studia” (Berlin), the “Jerusalem Journal” and others. A poetry collection “On the Rights of a Manuscript” was published in Israel (Jerusalem, 1996). In the “Jerusalem Journal” (1999, No. 2), she published memoirs about the former Rigan Israeli artist Iza Maler, “Marginalia from the Mikveh.” The book of documentary prose in epistolary form “Electronic Mail,” with illustrations by the author, is in press at the “Gesharim” publishing house (Jerusalem); individual chapters have been published in “Okna,” the literary supplement to the Tel Aviv newspaper “Vesti.” Ch.'s name appears in the World Encyclopaedia of Naïve Art (London, 1985). S. Chernobrova is the wife of Roman Timenchik.

Lit.: Aksenov Yu. “And the horse stands like a knight on guard” (on Chernobrova's exhibition) “Dekorativnoye iskusstvo,” 1977, No. 10; Kaganskaya Maya. An evening of Acmeism “Okna,” supplement to “Vesti.” Tel Aviv, 23 November 1993.