1818, St Petersburg - 1845, Rome

Painter, draughtsman, genre artist, watercolourist, landscapist, cartoonist, interior designer. Son of a teacher at the Mining Cadet Corps. Made copies of Mikhail Lebedev''s works. Audited classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1835–1838). Enrolled in Professor Maxim Vorobyov''s landscape and perspective painting class. Awarded a second-class silver medal (1836) for Fair in Ichnya and Herd, minor gold medal (1836) for seven works painted from life in the Ukraine and a major gold medal for Blessing Easter Cakes in the Ukraine (1836). Awarded the title of artist (1839). Worked at Grigory Tarnovsky''s Kachanovka estate in Chernigov Province (summer of 1836–1838). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Italy (from 1840). Lived and worked in Rome, Naples, Florence and Milan.