Aleksey Danilovich Kivshenko (russian: Алексей Данилович Кившенко; — 2 October 1895) was a Russian Imperial painter, primarily of historical scenes. Among the best-known were those depicting the

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. He also created hunting and

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scenes and was associated with the

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Biography

He was born on a small

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. His father was interested in art and music, so he encouraged his son's early attempts at drawing. His first studies began when he was nine; at the

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with

Ivan Kramskoi Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (russian: Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й; June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837, Ostrogozhsk – April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual ...

.Brief biography
@ Russian Painting. From 1867 to 1877, he was a student at the

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, under the direction of

Kārlis Hūns Kārlis Jēkabs Vilhelms Hūns, also known as Karl Jacob Wilhelm Huhn and Karl Theodor Huhn (Russian: Карл Фёдорович Гун; 13 November 1831 – 28 January 1877) was a Baltic-German history, genre and landscape painter.Great Soviet E ...

.Biographical notes
@ RusArtNet. He also audited classes at the State Institute of Technology and the Medico-Surgical Academy, but these were not to his liking. While there, he helped support himself by working as a scribe for the

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.Brief biography
@ LiveJournal. In 1880, after receiving a foreign fellowship, he began to travel extensively, visiting Paris,

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and Munich, where he worked with

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and

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. When he returned in 1884, the paintings he had produced earned him the title of "Academician". Later that year, he was commissioned by Tsar Alexander III to create scenes from the recent

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, so he went to

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to make sketches. He also taught drawing at the

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until 1889. In 1891, he accompanied

Nikodim Kondakov Nikodim (or Nikodeme) Pavlovich Kondakov (russian: Никоди́м Па́влович Кондако́в; 1 (13) November 1844, Olshanka, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire– 17 February 1925, Prague, Czechoslovakia), was an art ...

on an archaeological expedition to Palestine and Syria, returning with numerous sketches of everyday life in the region, as well as the ancient buildings. Many of these were used as book decorations. In 1893, he became a full member of the Academy and taught a class in battle painting. He died of undisclosed causes during a visit to Germany.

Selected paintings

File:Patriarch Nikon Revising Service-Books.jpg,

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Revising the
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Imam Shamil Imam Shamil ( av, Шейх Шамил, Şeyx Şamil; ar, الشيخ شامل; russian: Имам Шамиль; 26 June 1797 – 4 February 1871) was the political, military, and spiritual leader of North Caucasian resistance to Imperial Russia in ...

Surrendering to
Count Baryatinsky

References

External links

Biographical notes and more paintings
@ Воскресный день
Russian archaeologists in Jericho
@ Императорского Православного Палестинского Общества (Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society). {{DEFAULTSORT:Kivshenko, Aleksey 1851 births 1895 deaths 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters History painters Russian genre painters People from Venyovsky District Military art 19th-century male artists from the Russian Empire Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts Awarded with a large gold medal of the Academy of Arts