PELEVIN Ivan Andreevich

Born in 1841. He graduated from the course of the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1862 with the title neklassnogo artist. Soon after leaving the academy has written several paintings, among other things, two scenes: "Sunday leisure" and "Young Mother", for which the Academy, in 1864, made it to the great artists of the 3rd century. However, the lack of financial security prompted him to do mosaic art, and he continued to work and painting. In 1869, for the painting "Children's breakfast", "Rural seamstress," "Two enemy," "Rural Pestunov" and "A Study of Girls" was awarded him the title of academician. The following year, in a mosaic department, he was promoted to junior mosaic. In 1874 he moved to Vilna. Here, try their hand at history painting, and wrote, . incidentally, . paintings: "Ivan the Terrible in the cell Nikola Simpleton in Pskov and Boyarin Troyekurov reads Princess Sophia decree imprisoned her in a monastery", . but soon returned to the image scenes of village life, . as more typical of his talent,
. Unlike most other Russian genre painter, he is in his pictures are not sad or dark side of life and its manifestations are encouraging, sometimes unnecessarily prikrashennye idyll, and especially likes to show to the stage of children. In 1884, P. again entered the service in the mosaic Branch. A. P-in.