son of a government official
Imperial Academy of Art (1869-75, St Petersburg)
1874 - Imperial Academy of Art prize for sketch The Feast of Balthasar
1881 - exhibits The Morning of the Streltsi Execution at Nineth Peredvizhniki (Wanderers) Exhibition
1876 - commissioned to decorate Christ the Savior cathedral in Moscow; moves to Moscow
1893 - member of Russian Academy of Arts
Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and Spain
Boyarynya Morozova, 1887 (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)
Crossing of the Alps by Suvorov's Army, 1899 (Russian Museum, St Petersburg). More than 2,000 Russians died in a battle against Napoleon in the St Gotthard's Pass in Switzerland in 1799. See also Joseph Turner, Devil's Bridge.