Sergei Mikhailovich Volnukhin (1859–1921) was a

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, best known for his instruction to a generation of Russian artists at the

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, teaching alongside Prince

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Volnukhin was born at 1859 in

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, in the family of a merchant. Studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture (MUZHVZ, 1873-1881 and 1883-1886), and also at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1882). He lived in Moscow. Among Volnukhin's students: * Anna Golubkina (1889-1890) * Sergey Konenkov (1892-1896) * Nikolay Andreyev (1892-1901) * Alexander Matveyev (1899-1902) *

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(1901-1904) * Stepan Erzia (1902-1906) * Aleksei Babichev (1907-1912) * Boris Korolev (circa 1910) * Isaac Itkind (1912-1913) *

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(1914-1917) Notable among his own work is the 1909 monument to Ivan Fyodorov in Moscow (with architect Ivan Mashkov.) Volnukhin's papers are held at the

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