Yaroshenko Biography Wikipedia

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on December 13 in Poltava of the Russian Empire in the family of a retired major general. The parents of the future artist wanted the eldest son to continue his father’s military career to resign as a major general, his mother was the daughter of a retired lieutenant and did not attach much importance to the boy’s artistic talent.

In the year of 9-year-old Nikolai, he was identified in the Poltava Cadet Corps, after which he entered the St. Petersburg Pavlovsk Infantry School in the year. The future military engineer in the year continued training at the Mikhailovsky Artillery Academy and at the same time began to visit the Academy of Arts. He also took private drawing lessons, worked in the workshop of Andrian Markovich Volkova - and attended evening classes of the School of Society for the Promotion of Arts, where Ivan Kramskoy taught.

Even in Poltava, his teacher of painting was the former serf Ivan Kondratievich Zaitsev-after graduating with honors from the Academy of the year, Nikolai Yaroshenko was appointed to the cartridge plant in St. Petersburg, where he served for more than 20 years. In the year, he graduated from the Academy of Arts. Over the years of study, he became close to the artists-forwards and writers from the magazine "Domestic Notes".

On Saturdays, the color of the intelligentsia was gathered in his apartment. In the year, Yaroshenko made his debut at the 4th mobile exhibition with the painting "Nevsky Prospekt". A year later, he joined the partnership and was immediately elected to the board. He remained his leading representative with Ivan Nikolayevich Kramsky. For more than 10 years, Yaroshenko, after the death of the teacher, was his successor and expressor of his ideas.

Kramsky was called the "mind" of movement, and Yaroshenko - his "conscience." In the year, he married Maria Pavlovna Neurotina, Personnel, Bestuzhevka, Public Actor. The newlyweds visited Poltava, then left for Pyatigorsk. Leaving a young wife there, the artist wrote sketches in Svanitia for a month. The first Caucasian landscapes that the artist wrote during a wedding trip caused the public delight.

The North Caucasus for most residents of the middle lane was then unknown. Therefore, when the artist brought to Petersburg the painting "Shat-Gora Elbrus", many considered the author’s panorama depicted there by the author’s fantasy. With a light hand, critic Vladimir Stasov, the artist Yaroshenko received the nickname "Portraitist of the Mountains." In the year, Yaroshenko bought a house in Kislovodsk, called the White Villa, where the family spent summer.

The welcoming hosts attached several outbuildings to their five -room house, and the guests of the dacha helped with painting in the technique of pompi murals. Yaroshenko lived on the White Villa and worked until his death.

In the year, due to health reasons, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko, having fulfilled his father’s dream and repeated his path, resigned as a major general. In the year, despite the tuberculosis of the trachea, Yaroshenko went on a trip to Russia and the world: the Volga region, Italy, Syria, Palestine, Egypt. Of the wanderings, he brought many paintings, sketches, sketches, portraits and graphic works.

Yaroshenko died on June 26 on July 7 from a heart attack the day after he ran to the house in the rain of more than 10 km from the mountain a large saddle, where he wrote from nature. A year later, a monument was erected on his grave - a bronze bust of the artist on a black pedestal, against the background of a granite stele with a relief image of a cross, a palm branch and palette with brushes.

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