Mikhail Lazarevich Shcherbatov

Background

Mikhail Lazarevich Shcherbatov (Scherbatykh) was born on November 8, 1845, Rudnya village of Bogucharsky district, Russian Federation.

Education

Mikhail Lazarevich studied at the Voronezh workshop of the icon painter E.K. Ognev, the drawing school of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (Saint Petersburg, 1867 - 1869) with Ivan Nikolaevich Kramsky, where he later taught (1871 - 1883), and at the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1869 - 1878).

Career

Mikhail Lazarevich participated in the creation of a gallery of portraits of Russian historical figures commissioned by Vasily Andreyevich Dashkov for the Rumyantsev Museum.

He is the author of images of N.A. Ermakov, General M.D. Skobelev, P.D. Kaverin, I.N. Kramsky, I. K. Kutuzov, N. Kochubey. Some of Shcherbatov's works are in the collections of the State Hermitage Museum.

Works

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  • N. Kochubey

    1888