Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov (; – ) was a Russian

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and history painter, known for his

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Biography

His father was a tax collector for the

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.Brief biography
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@ ArtLib.ru The Institute was not to his liking and he was an indifferent student, so a family friend who was an amateur artist encouraged his father to send him to the

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(MSPSA). With a recommendation from

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, he began auditing classes there in 1878; studying with

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and Evgraf Sorokin. He left there in 1882 to attend the

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. Dissatisfaction with the school's administration and financial difficulties forced him to return to Moscow in 1884. He went back to the MSPSA and graduated in 1885. At that time he started work on a series of paintings devoted to "", the process of resettling peasants to outlying, vacant areas (mostly in Siberia) in an attempt to ease overcrowding in the villages after the

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. The move was often very arduous and many died on the way. From 1885 to 1889, he toured the provinces of

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and

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, documenting the migrants' lives. This was followed by a series on convicts. In the mid 1890s, he began to focus on historical works. In 1899, he became a member of the

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, but was soon dissatisfied with their emphasis on "lovely scenes". In 1903, he was one of the founders of the "" (Union of Russian Artists), temporarily replacing the better-known "

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". In 1905, the Imperial Academy named him an "Academician". Later that year, during the Moscow Uprising, he made numerous sketches while also helping the wounded. From 1903 to 1910, he taught at the MSPSA. He was also known as an illustrator; creating drawings for classics by

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Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of ...

and

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, among others. He died of a heart attack at his

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near the Yakhroma River.

Selected paintings

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References

External links

Sergey Ivanov
@ Russian Paintings {{DEFAULTSORT:Ivanov, Sergey Vasilyevich 1864 births 1910 deaths People from Moscow Oblast People from Ruzsky Uyezd Peredvizhniki Genre painters from the Russian Empire Social realist artists 19th-century painters of historical subjects Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture alumni Imperial Academy of Arts alumni Mir iskusstva artists

Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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