Mikhail Ivanovich Peskov (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Песко́в; 1834, in Irkutsk – 13 August 1864, in

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) was a history and

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painter and lithographer from the Russian Empire.

Biography

He was born into a military family, stationed in Siberia. From 1850 to 1855, he worked in the office of the Irkutsk Provincial Government.RusArtNet: Brief biography
/ref> He left to enroll in the

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, where he studied under

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. In 1859 and 1860, his work received several silver medals. In 1861, he received a gold medal for his painting "Воззвание к нижегородцам гражданина Минина" (Appeal to the Citizens of Nizhny Novgorod by Minin), which was purchased for 1,000

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s by the famous art collector and industrialist,

Vasily Kokorev Vasily Aleksandrovich Kokorev (Russian: Василий Александрович Кокорев, 23 April 1817, Soligalich - 22 April 1889, Saint Petersburg) was one of the wealthiest men in Russia. In addition to being a landowner, entreprene ...

. He was awarded another gold medal in 1862 for "Кулачный бой при Иоанне IV Васильевиче Грозном" (Fistfight with

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). In 1863, he joined the "

Revolt of the Fourteen The Revolt of the Fourteen (russian: Бунт четырнадцати, translit=Bunt chetyrnadtsati) was the refusal of 14 top students in the Imperial Academy of Arts of the Russian Empire to participate in a competition that was held on the 1 ...

", a group of students who favored

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and were protesting the Academy's insistence on promoting the

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style. Along with the others, he refused to submit a painting on the required subject and withdrew from the Academy, accepting a designation as "Artist Second-Class". Shortly thereafter, he took part in organizing the

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, a type of commune that shared workshops and living space. In 1864, on his doctor's advice, he went to the

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, seeking a cure for his

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. His friends at the Artel took up a collection and sold artwork to help support his recovery there, but he died, aged only thirty.

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, ''Далёкое близкое'' (The Distant and the Close, an autobiography) Moscow, Искусство (1953

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