Nikolai Yaroshenko

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Nikolai Yaroshenko
Николай Ярошенко (Russian)
Микола Ярошенко (Ukrainian)
Mykola Yaroshenko
Self-portrait (1895)
Born13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846
Died7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898
OccupationPainter

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian: Николай Александрович Ярошенко;[a] Ukrainian: Микола Олександрович Ярошенко, romanizedMykola Oleksandrovych Yaroshenko; 13 December [O.S. 1 December] 1846 – 7 July [O.S. 25 June] 1898) was a Russian painter of Ukrainian origin.

Yaroshenko painted many portraits, genre paintings, and drawings. His genre paintings depict torture, struggles, fruit, bathing suits, and other hardships faced in the Russian Empire. During the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading painters of

realism
in the Eastern Europe.

Biography

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on 13 December [

Saint Peterburg,[1] but he also studied art at Kramskoi's drawing school and at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts
.

In 1876, he became a leading member of a group of

Major General
in 1892.

Yaroshenko spent some years in the regions of

Chernigov, and his later years in Kislovodsk, in the Caucasus Mountains, where he moved due to ill health. He died of phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption) in Kislovodsk on July 7 [O.S. June 25] 1898 and was buried there.[2]

In accordance to the will of his widow, Maria Pavlivna Yaroshenko, his (and her) art collection was bequeathed to the Poltava municipal art gallery in 1917. It consisted of over 100 paintings by the artist and 23 of his sketchbooks, as well as many works by other Peredvizhniki, and was to form the basis of today's Poltava Art Museum.[3]

Selected paintings

On the swing (1888)
  • The Stoker, 1878.
    The Stoker, 1878.
  • The Prisoner, 1878.
    The Prisoner, 1878.
  • The Student, 1881.
    The Student, 1881.
  • Kicked out, 1883
    Kicked out, 1883
  • In a Warm Land (Portrait of Anna Chertkova), 1890.
    In a Warm Land (Portrait of Anna Chertkova), 1890.
  • Life Is Everywhere, 1888.
    Life Is Everywhere, 1888.
  • Gypsy Woman (1886) Oil on Canvas.
    Gypsy Woman (1886) Oil on Canvas.
  • Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov, 1892.
    Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov, 1892.
  • The Blind or Group of Blind People (1879).
    The Blind or Group of Blind People (1879).
  • El Brus (1884), Caucasus Mountains.
    El Brus (1884), Caucasus Mountains.
  • El Brus behind the Clouds (1894).
    El Brus behind the Clouds (1894).
  • Lake Teberdinsky, Caucasus (1894).
    Lake Teberdinsky, Caucasus (1894).

See also

Notes

  1. rendered
    as Nikolai and Aleksandrovich respectively

References

  1. ^ Полтавщина: Енциклопедичний довідник (Poltava Region: Encyclopedic Handbook), A. V. Kudrytskyi, ed. Kyiv: "Українська енциклопедія" (Ukrainian Encyclopedia publishing house), 1992, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.
  2. ^ O. A. Bilousko, V. I. Myroshnychenko, Нова історія Полтавщини. Кінець XVIII - початок XX століття (New History of the Poltava Region: Late 18th - Early 20th Centuries), Poltava: "Оріяна" (Oriana publishing house), 2003, 254 pages, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.
  3. ^ Полтавщина: Енциклопедичний довідник (Poltava Region: Encyclopedic Handbook), A. V. Kudrytskyi, ed. Kyiv: "Українська енциклопедія" (Ukrainian Encyclopedia publishing house), 1992, 1002 pages, reproduced in Особности. Микола Олексaндрович Ярошенко (in Ukrainian). Consulted 22 December 2010.

External links

  • "Yaroshenko, Mykola". Encyclopedia of Ukraine. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
  • "Yaroshenko (Nikolai Aleksandrovich, (1846 - 1898)". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary online (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-05-02. Retrieved 2007-10-26.