Mikhail Mikeshin

Mikhail Ossipowitsch Mikeshin (Russian: Михаил Осипович Микешин, scientific transliteration Mikhail Osipovič Mikešin; * Februarjul 9 / 21 February 1835greg in Roslawl, .. .. † 19 Januarjul / 31 January 1896greg in St. Petersburg) was a Russian sculptor and painter who has worked a lot for the Romanov dynasty and designed a variety of monuments and statues in the major cities of the Russian Empire.

Between 1852 and 1858 Mikeshin attended the Imperial Academy of Arts. Its influenced by Romanticism representation patriotic motives soon earned him the sympathy of the Russian royal family, and he was commissioned to teach the painting of the Grand Duchess ( in the Russian Empire wife of the younger brother of the Tsar ).

Although his strength lay in the painting of great battles, won Mike Schins design in pursued by the public with great interest the competition for the Novgorod monument one thousand years Russia in 1859. From this point on, he had a variety of jobs. He illustrated the prevailing motto " autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality " in his monumental statues of Kuzma Minin in Nizhny Novgorod, Alexei Greig in Nikolayev and Tsar Alexander II in Rostov-on- Don.

Few monuments of Mikeshin survived the Soviet era. These include the monument of Catherine the Great in Saint - Petersburg ( unveiled 1873), Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev of (1888 ) and of Yermak in Novocherkassk ( 1904). Mikeshin is also part of the authorship of several monuments abroad, for example, the statue of Peter IV in Lisbon.

In the years 1876-1878 Mikeshin was the editor of the satirical magazine " Ptschela " ( the Bee ), where he published his cartoons and illustrations for the works of Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko. Mikhail Mikeshin died on 31 January 1896 in Saint-Petersburg.