Trutovsky Konstantin
Trutovsky Konstantin Aleksandrovich - Russian genre painter, illustrator of works by N. V. Gogol, M. Yu. Lermontov, I. A. Krylov, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of the Royal Belgian Society of Watercolorists.
Living on his parental estate, where the Little Russian nature and folk life made such a strong impression on him that they became the main source from which he mainly drew the content for his works from that time. In addition to scenes of Ukrainian common life, he depicted the types and customs of small landowners, showing in these images his subtle observation, wit and often poetic feeling.