Artist of the mid-19th century

Painter. Born into the St Petersburg lower middle class. Audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Art; began studying under Pyotr Basin (from 1836). In1842, he left the lower middle class and was awarded the title of Free Artist for the painting Russian Girl Plucking a Flower. Made drawings for various publications: Correspondence and Stories of a Rus¬sian Invalid (1844), Page (1845) and others.