Our Iconographer Marie Elchaninoff Struve was born in Nice, France in 1925. Her father was the famous Russian Orthodox priest, Father Alexander Elchaninoff, and her mother is the noted iconographer from whom she learned her art. Madame Struve also studied with one of the most remarkable iconographers of the Russian emigration in Europe, the Orthodox Nun, Sister Joanna Reshlinger. Madame Struve is married to Nikita Struve, the world famous author, scholar and Orthodox lay leader. The Struves have three children.