Avdotia Matveevna Goncharova (1785-1851) - mother of I.A.Goncharov.
Oil on canvas by unknown artist.
The beginning of the XIX century.Ulyanovsk Regional Museum of Local Lore, History and Economy.

I.Goncharov embodied the character of his mother in his novels ("A Common Story" - mother of A. Aduev, "Oblomov" - mother of I. Oblomov, "The Precipice" - T. Berezhkova).