Background
Tvorozhnikov, Ivan was born in 1848.
Tvorozhnikov, Ivan was born in 1848.
Studied at the Petersburg Society for the Encouragement of the Arts, then the Academy of Arts, 1868-1875. Tvorozhnikov graduated in the Saint St. Petersburg Drawing School attached to the Society of Imperial Incentive.
Finishing his studies there in 1868, he entered the Academy of Arts, where he continued his education up to 1875. A son of peasant from Moscow Guberniya, Tvorozhnikov was born in Zhukovo village of the Tver uyezd. Being 12 years old, he was sent to Saint St. Petersburg for wages.
Later Tvorozhnikov repeatedly visited the Tver Guberniya.