Poltava
1846-1898 Kislovodsk
Nikolai
Aieksandrovich laroshenko was caught by I.N. Kramskoi when he attended
the Drawing School of the Society for Encouraging Artists from 1863 to
1867. For the next seven years, until 1874, Iaroshenko took classes at
the Petersburg Academy of Arts. Upon completion of his military
service in 1892, he lived primarily in Petersburg and, during his last
years, in Kislovodsk. He traveled widely in Europe, the Near and
Middle East, and Russia. A portraitist and a painter of genre scenes,
Iaroshenko also made drawings and emerged as a leading proponent of
Russian realism in the 1880s and 1890s. He took an active role in the
Circle of the Itinerants, not only exhibiting with them regularly
beginning in 1876 but also serving on their administrative board.
