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Bogdanov-Belskiy Nikolay
An artist who came from the people, he was born into a poor peasant family in 1868 in the village of Shopotovo, Belsk district, Smolensk province. He received his primary education at the public school of Sergei Alexandrovich Rachinsky in the village of Tatevo. Painting Bogdanov-Belsky studied first in the icon-painting workshop of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, and in 1884-1889 at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. His mentors were Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov, Vladimir Egorovich Makovsky, Illarion Mikhailovich Pryanishnikov.
He graduated from the Bogdanov-Belsky School in 1889, presenting the painting "The Future Monk" as his thesis. For this painting Bogdanov-Belsky received the Great Silver Medal and the title of "class artist". In 1890, the canvas of the young artist participated in the exhibition of the Itinerants. The picture was highly appreciated by the famous critic Vladimir Vasilyevich Stasov. Repetition of the painting was done for Pavel Mikhailovich Tretyakov, and the painting itself was transferred to Empress Maria Feodorovna Romanova. The artist paints landscapes, portraits, still lifes, genre paintings. He painted aristocrats, famous contemporaries, Emperor Nicholas II (1904 - 1908), Empress Maria Feodorovna, Grand Duke Dmitry Pavlovich (1902), Prince F.F.Yusupov (1911), F.I. Shalyapin (1916) and many, many others ...