Aleksey Fyodorovich Afanas'ev, also Afanasiev or Afanasyev (Russian: Алексе́й Фёдорович Афана́сьев; 30 November 1850,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

- c. 1920, location unknown) was a Russian Empire painter, graphic artist,

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and illustrator who was associated with the

Peredvizhniki Peredvizhniki ( rus, Передви́жники, , pʲɪrʲɪˈdvʲiʐnʲɪkʲɪ), often called The Wanderers or The Itinerants in English, were a group of Russian realist artists who formed an artists' cooperative in protest of academic restr ...

Biography

His parents were servants at the Imperial Court, and he originally worked as a footman and stoker.Brief biography
@ the Sate Museum,

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. In 1872, he began auditing classes at the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thre ...

and was accepted as a student a year later. In 1877, he received a silver medal for his drawings from nature. From 1887 to 1905, he was a teacher at the

Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts The Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (Russian: Императорское общество поощрения художеств (ОПХ)) was an organization devoted to promoting the arts that existed in Saint Petersburg from 182 ...

.Brief biography
@ RusArtNet. In 1905, following the death of

Konstantin Savitsky Konstantin Apollonovich Savitsky (russian: Константи́н Аполло́нович Сави́цкий; 25 May 1844 — 31 January 1905) was a Russian realist painter born in the city of Taganrog in the village Frankovka or Baronovka, ...

, he was named to succeed him as Director of the art college in

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, near Moscow. He resigned (some sources say he was dismissed) four years later and returned to his position as teacher at the Imperial Society. From 1889 to 1918, he participated in the exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki.Товарищества передвижных художественных выставок
a list of artists who exhibited with the Peredvizhniki. After 1912, he provided drawings for several satirical, humorous and literary periodicals, including '' Fragments'' (Осколки). He also did illustrations for ''

The Tale of Tsar Saltan The Tale of Tsar Saltan, of His Son the Renowned and Mighty Bogatyr Prince Gvidon Saltanovich, and of the Beautiful Princess-Swan ( rus, «Сказка о царе Салтане, о сыне его славном и могучем богаты� ...

'' and ''

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish The fairy tale commemorated on a Soviet Union stamp ''The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish'' (russian: «Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке», Skazka o rybake i rybke) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin, published 1835. The ...

'' by

Pushkin Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin (; rus, links=no, Александр Сергеевич ПушкинIn pre-Revolutionary script, his name was written ., r=Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin, p=ɐlʲɪkˈsandr sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ ˈpuʂkʲɪn, ...

, as well as works by Aleksey Tolstoy; but his best-known works of this type are, perhaps, those for ''The Humpbacked Horse'' by Pyotr Yershov. Many of his illustrations were published as postcards. From 1894 to 1897, along with

Viktor Vasnetsov Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (russian: Ви́ктор Миха́йлович Васнецо́в; May 15 ( N.S.), 1848 – July 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He is considered the co-founde ...

Mikhail Nesterov Mikhail Vasilyevich Nesterov (russian: Михаи́л Васи́льевич Не́стеров; – 18 October 1942) was a Russian and Soviet painter; associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva. He was one of the first exponents of ...

and other well-known painters, he participated in decorating the

Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood The Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood (russian: Церковь Спаса на Крови, ''Tserkovʹ Spasa na Krovi'') is a Russian Orthodox church in Saint Petersburg, Russia which currently functions as a secular museum and church at the ...

, creating drawings for numerous mosaics. He apparently disappeared during the

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Selected paintings

File:Peter the Great by Afanas'ev.jpg,

Peter the Great Peter I ( – ), most commonly known as Peter the Great,) or Pyotr Alekséyevich ( rus, Пётр Алексе́евич, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ, , group=pron was a Russian monarch who ruled the Tsardom of Russia from t ...

Saves the Lost Soldiers
near Lakhta (1914) File:Afanas'ev holiday relaxation.jpg, Holiday (1915) File:Afanas'ev presentation icon.jpg, Presentation of the Icon (1916)

References

External links

Postcards of illustrations by Afanas'ev
@ Клуб Филокартист (

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Biography

Selected paintings

References

Further reading

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