Nikolai yaroshenko biography channel

Russian artist, master of social genre and portrait in the spirit of "Wanderers". Was born in Poltava, 1 (13) Dec 1846 in a military family.

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He graduated from the Mikhailovsky artillery Academy in St. Petersburg (1870), served in the Arsenal, in 1892, he retired with the rank of major-General. He studied painting at the Drawing school society for the encouragement of arts I.

N. Archaeology and the Academy of fine arts (1867-1874). Traveled to the countries of Western Europe, Middle East, Ural, the Volga, Caucasus and Crimea. He was a member (from 1876) and one of the leaders of the "Itinerants society".

Lived mainly in St. Petersburg and Kislovodsk.

Protest the pathos inherent in the paintings of the master, expressed in the images of the "new people" (Student, 1881, ibid; Students, 1883, the cases in the Museum of Russian art in Kiev and Kaluga art Museum) either in genre motifs of social violence (the prisoner's car in the famous canvas of life is Everywhere, 1888, Tretyakov gall