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Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov

(1824-1896)

Aleksey Petrovich Bogolyubov was born on March, 16, 1824 in the village Pomeranye of Novgorod Gubernia. His father, Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov, was a retired colonel. Bogolyubov's grandfather was the well-known writer, philosopher and poet Alexander Radishchev. In 1841, Aleksey graduated from nautical school and began his service in the Russian Navy. In 1850 he forsook navy for painting and started to attend classes at St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. There he studied art. His teachers were Maxim Vorobiev and G. P. Villevalde. In 1853, he graduated from the Academy and was appointed as an artist to the Navy headquarters. From 1854 to 1860, he travelled around Europe and worked prolifically. In Rome, he got acquainted with Alexander Ivanov. In Dьsseldorf Bogolyubov studied art under the guidance of the painter Andreas Achenbach. In Paris he worked in studios of French painters Camille Corot and Charles Franзois Daubigny, who were Bogolyubo’s good friends and collaborators. Bogolyubov returned to Russia in 1860. He exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor. For some time, he taught in the Academy. In the 1860s, he travelled along the Volga. During the reign of Alexander II Bogolyubov painted a lot of magnificent pictures from the history of Russian fleet during the reign of Peter I. During the reign of Alexander III he painted a few works from the history of Russian-Turkish war (1877) and the picture “The Arrival of Russian Squadron in Toulon”. After 1873, Bogolyubov lived primarily in Paris, because of his heart condition. Frequent visitors of his house were Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Vasily Polenov, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin. In 1885, Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather. Bogolyubov died on 3 February 1896 in Paris. After his death, Bogolyubov bequeathed his capital (about 200 thousand Russian rubles) to the museum and its art school. The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and was named Bogolyubov's Painting School. Among the painters who attended Bogolyubov's School were such important modernist artists as Victor Borisov-Musatov and Pavel Kuznetsov.