Mina Lukich Kolokolnikov (russian: Мина Лукич Колокольников; 1708?-1775?) was a Russian

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and teacher.

Biography

Kolokolnikov was born in the village of Kravotyn in

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gubernia. He was a

serf Serfdom was the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism, and similar systems. It was a condition of debt bondage and indentured servitude with similarities to and differences from slavery, which developed ...

of the Pafnutievo-Borovsky Monastery, and learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin and Louis Caravaque; he also studied

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painting with Vasily Vasilevsky. He is known to have assisted in the decoration of the palace at Tsarskoye Selo, and to have lived for a time in St. Petersburg, where one of his pupils was Trifon Anisimov. One of his portraits is in the

''Regional Picture Gallery''. He worked in the studio of Alexei Antropov; consequently, it is often difficult to tell Kolokolnikov's works from Antropov's, as both have very similar technique. Kolokolnikov's brothers Ivan and

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were also painters.

References

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T. Boytsova ''The place of inspiration

Buildings in Saint Petersburg he decorated

18th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian serfs 1707 births 1775 deaths People from Ostashkovsky District {{Russia-painter-stub