SMOKING Alexander Avvakumovich

(1865, Ekaterinoslav Province - 1944, Moscow).
He studied at the Kyiv Drawing School NI. Murashko, then y N. Ge, worked as an assistant with B. Vasnetsov painted by Vladimir Cathedral in Kiev, under the direction of M. Vrubel mural on St. Cyril's Church. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, entered the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1891) and in 1894. received the title of the artist. In 1895, Mr.. was invited. Repin for teaching in that it organizes preparatory art studio, subsidized mK. Tenisheva. In St. Petersburg studio Tenishev studied in different years and. Bilibin, IN. Falileev, W. Serebryakov, E. Cheptsov, H. Shestopalov, C. Chekhonin, M. Yakovlev, E. Chestnyakov etc.. The next, 1896, with the advice and. Repin mK. Tenisheva invited to. as a teacher and director of the Smolensk Drawing School, where he worked for 4 years. Then traveled to Russia, collected ethnographic restorer worked at the Tretyakov Gallery.