Background
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on 13 December 1846 in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Poltava, Poltavs'ka Oblast', Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army.
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko was born on 13 December 1846 in the city of Poltava, Russian Empire (now Poltava, Poltavs'ka Oblast', Ukraine) to a son of an officer in the Russian Army.
Nikolai Alexandrovich chose a military career, studying at the Poltava Cadet Academy and later the Mikhailovsky Military Artillery Academy in Saint Peterburg, but he also studied art at Kramskoi's drawing school and at the Saint Petersburg Imperial Academy of Arts.
In 1876, Nikolai Alexandrovich became a leading member of a group of Russian painters called the Peredvizhniki (also known as the Itinerants or Wanderers). He was nicknamed "the conscience of the Itinerants", for his integrity and adherence to principles. Yaroshenko retired as a Major General in 1892.
Nikolai Alexandrovich spent some years in the regions of Poltava and Chernigov, and his later years in Kislovodsk, in the Caucasus Mountains, where he moved due to ill health.
Nikolai Alexandrovich died of phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis or consumption) in Kislovodsk on July 7 1898 and was buried there.
The Stoker
1878The Prisoner
1878Kursistka
1883The Student
1881Life is Everywhere
1888Kicked out
1883In a Warm Land
1890Gypsy Woman
1886Portrait of Vladimir Solovyov
1892The Blind or Group of Blind People
1879El Brus
1884El Brus behind the Clouds
1894Lake Teberdinsky, Caucasus
1894On the swing
1888