18.12.1874 – 04.12.1947

Petrovichev Peter Ivanovich began his journey as an artist as an apprentice of the Rostov Museum of Church antiquities, and not having at that time no special art education. The young artist’s talent was spotted by the great Russian battle painter Vasily Vereshchagin. In 1892 Vereshchagin helped Petrovicheva at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture, “the forge” great Russian artists, the Wanderers. Petrovichev became a disciple of the great Levitan, who dispelled prevailed in the mind of the young man light the misconceptions and brought him to the wide road of artistic skills, becoming a teacher in life and in art, a warm memory and appreciation which the artist has preserved forever.

After the master’s death in 1900, Petrovichev continue studying at the Valentin Serov. Soon after graduation, in 1904, the artist began to exhibit travelling Exhibitions. He comes to his success, the recognition, his work acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery.

The range of his pictorial interests Petrovichev is defined as follows: “I was fascinated by the Russkaya Starina – the ancient monuments of architecture, familiar from childhood. I repeatedly visited the great Russian cities – Nizhny Novgorod, Kostroma, Yaroslavl, Suzdal, Veliky Novgorod, Vladimir, wrote there his sketches. Later they became material for paintings, devoted to Russian antiquity. On these topics I was working all his life”.

Died 4 Jan 1947 in Moscow, is buried in the cemetery Vagankovsky.

Image: P. N. Petrovichev. View of the village in the autumn evening. 1909 (from the collection of WAHM them. I. N. Kramskoy)