Leonid Chernishyov
Leonid Aleksandrovich Chernishyov (Russian: Леонид Александрович Чернышёв ; (15 May 1875, Sukhobuzim, Yeniseysk Governorate - 1932, Krasnoyarsk) was a Russian and Soviet architect and designer. Biography He was born into a peasant family. His mother was the daughter of a priest. In 1880, they moved from their village to Krasnoyarsk, where his father took work as a scribe. While studying at the Gymnasium (school), gymnasium, he made friends with his classmate, . At that time, an artist named M. A. Rudchenko was lodging with Karatanov's family. He introduced both boys to drawing and painting. These hobbies were encouraged by the artist, Vasily Surikov, who was an old acquaintance of Leonid's family. In 1892, on Surikov's advice, he left Krasnoyarsk to enroll at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. One of the students he met there was (no relation), who would one day become Moscow's Chief Architect. Under his influence, Leonid deci ...
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