Nikolai Yaroshenko

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Yaroshenko (Russian Николай Александрович Ярошенко; * 1 Dezemberjul / December 13 1846greg in Poltava, .. .. † 25 Junijul / July 7 1898greg in Kislovodsk ) was a Russian painter.

Life

Yaroshenko was the son of an officer who is also embarking on a military career and in 1892 as a Major General retired. In addition to his military training, he studied in the period from 1866 to 1867 at the Drawing School of Ivan Kramskoi; then he sat until 1874 he continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. From 1876 he was a leading member of the Peredvizhniki.

After completing his military career, he lived primarily in Saint Petersburg, later to relocate to Kislovodsk. He traveled widely through Russia, Europe, the Middle and the Near East.

Yaroshenko painted mainly portraits and genre paintings and drawings. In the last two decades of the 19th century, he was one of the leading representatives of Russian realism in painting. His works are attributable to the Post-Impressionism.

Works (selection)

• The Prisoner (1878 )
• The Student ( 1881)
• In The Warm Land (1890)
• Mount Elbrus in clouds ( 1894)
• Life is everywhere

Trivia

German readers of detective novels was the image of the student Yaroshenko primarily by the fact known that it appears on all the cover images of the ' Fandorin' series by Boris Akunin. The Aufbau-Verlag mounted the young man shown there into various historical images, such as The Letter of James Tissot. The fictional investigators Erast Petrovich Fandorin was so in Germany the face of the students.