Ivan Maksymovych Soshenko (, 2 June 1807

Bohuslav Bohuslav (, ; ) is a List of cities in Ukraine, city on the Ros (river), Ros River in Obukhiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine. It hosts the administration of Bohuslav urban hromada, one of the hromadas of Ukraine. Population: 17,135 (2001). It is ...

, in the

Kiev Governorate Kiev Governorate was an administrative-territorial unit ('' guberniya'') of the Russian Empire (1796–1917), Ukrainian People's Republic (1917–18; 1918–1921), Ukrainian State (1918), and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1919–19 ...

of the

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— 18 July 1876 Korsun) was a Ukrainian painter. Soshenko studied at the

Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts The Imperial Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by Ivan Shuvalov, the founder of the Imperial Moscow University, under the name ''Academy of the ...

from 1834 to 1838, then taught painting in gymnasiums in

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from 1839 to 1846,

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from 1846 to 1856, and

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. His work included

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, genre scenes,

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, and religious

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s. In 1835, he met and befriended

Taras Shevchenko Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (; ; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He was a fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts and a member of the Brotherhood o ...

. Along with teaching him the use of

watercolors Watercolor (American English) or watercolour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences), also ''aquarelle'' (; from Italian diminutive of Latin 'water'), is a painting method"Watercolor may be as old as art itself, going back to the S ...

,Anna Reid. ''Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine ''. Westview Press, 2000. p 78 Soshenko also introduced him to authors and painters

Yevhen Hrebinka Yevhen Pavlovych Hrebinka (; ; 2 February 1812 – 15 December 1848) was a Ukrainian romantic prose writer, poet, and philanthropist. He wrote in both the Ukrainian and Russian languages. He was an older brother of the architect . Life and car ...

Vasily Zhukovsky Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (; – ) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19th century. He held a high position at the Romanov court as tutor to the Grand Duchess Alexan ...

Karl Briullov Karl Pavlovich Bryullov ( Bryullo; ; – ) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art. Biography Karl Bryullov was born on 12 (23) December 179 ...

, and Alexey Venetsianov, and helped in the purchase Shevchenko's freedom from

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. Later, he helped Shevchenko to be admitted to the St Petersburg Academy of Arts. Mykhailo Chaly published a biography of Soshenko in

in 1876.

Gallery

File:Soshenko peizasz.jpg, File:Soshenko Portrait.jpg, File:Soshenko-Grandmother.jpg, File:Soshenko-Hay.jpg,

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Marble bust of Soshenko I.M. 1807-1876
1807 births 1876 deaths People from Bohuslav People from Kiev Governorate Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire {{ukraine-painter-stub