Sofia Ivanovna Junker-Kramskaya, born on August 21, 1867, in the village of Vypolzovo in the Pereyaslavsky district of Vladimir province, was a Russian artist and the daughter of the famous painter Ivan Kramskoy. She excelled in various genres of painting, including graphics, miniatures, watercolor, portraits, genre scenes, and still lifes, and also worked in illustration.

Before the revolution, her life was calm and happy. Her father loved Sofia very much, as evidenced by the many portraits he created of her. Ilya Repin admired her grace, while Albert Benois courted her. However, Sofia fell in love with a young doctor, Sergey Botkin, to whom she was engaged. But unexpectedly, Botkin married her friend Alexandra Tretyakova. Painting helped Sofia cope with her depression.

She quickly became a well-known portraitist and received numerous commissions, including portraits of members of the imperial family. Her works were exhibited at the Academy of Arts and other exhibitions. Personal tragedy long troubled her, and she married lawyer Georgy Junker only at the age of 35. Fifteen years later, her husband died, and then the revolution and Civil War began, resulting in many of her paintings being destroyed or lost, with some burned in a fire at the Ostrogozhsk Museum.

On December 25, 1930, Sofia was arrested and sentenced as a "foreign element" for creating a "counter-revolutionary group of former nobility," receiving a sentence of three years of exile in Siberia. The stress she experienced caused her to have a stroke, and she ended up in a prison hospital with severe paralysis. She was then sent in stages through Irkutsk, Kans, and Krasnoyarsk.

In March 1932, after her case was reviewed due to her incurable illness, Sofia Ivanovna returned to Leningrad, but just a year later, she died under mysterious circumstances. Rehabilitation occurred only in 1989 due to the absence of a crime.