Son of a public prosecutor
Alexander Stupin’s Art School; with Sergey Zaryanko at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (Moscow Academy, 1853-62)
1862 -Village Sermon wins gold medal at Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (MSPSA); wins MSPSA travel scholarship
1866 - member of Imperial Russian Academy of Arts
1870 – founding member of The Wanderers (Peredvizhniki); begins teaching at Imperial Academy
1871 – begins teaching at MSPSA
1877 - resigns from Wanderers
1881-2 – publishes “Tales of an artist” [Rasskazy khudozhnika] in Khudozhestvennyi Zhurnal (St Petersburg); resigns from MSPSA
France and Germany, mainly Paris (1862)
Troika. Young Apprentices Carrying Water, 1866 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
The Governess's Arrival, 1866 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
The Last Tavern at the City Gates, 1868 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Perov, Vasily. Vasily Perov: Paintings, Graphic Works. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1987
Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl. “The Peredvizhniki and the Spirit of the 1860s,” Russian Review, vol. 34, no. 3 (July 1975): 247-65