Background
Vladimir Beklemishev was born on August 15, 1861 in Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Vladimir Beklemishev was born on August 15, 1861 in Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
Vladimir Beklemishev studied in 2nd City Gymnasium.
Beklemishevs are an old Russian noble family, distant relatives to famous Russian military leaders, Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Mikhail Kutuzov. Alexander Beklemishev after retirement lived in Rome for many years and even accepted an Italian last name of Redgio. On returning to Russian Empire, Alexander Beklemishev worked as a director and decorator of provincial opera theatres and a watercolour painter.
He firstly received his art lessons from his father, then from the local painter Ye.Ye Shraider and from the Art School of Doctor of Medicine Rayevsky-Ivanova.
In 1878 Beklemishev moved to Saint St. Petersburg and started his studies at the Imperial Academy of Arts. He chooses the sculpture class.
In January 1888 he moved to Paris then to Rome. The most remarkable Beklemishev"s sculpture of the Rome period is the "Early Christian Woman".
She also made his first sculpture portraits then
The same year he demonstrates his famous sculpture "How Beautiful, How Fresh Were the Roses" named after the story of Ivan Turgenev. In 1894 Beklemishev became a Professor of the Academy. Among his pupils were famous sculptors Anna Golubkina, Vsevolod Lishev, Matvey Manizer, Leonid Sherwood.
During that time he chiselled a number of sculpture portraits including the sculptures of physicist Nikolay Beketov, painter Konstantin Makovsky, musicians Mitrofan Belyayev and Vasily Safonov.
In 1914 he cut a bust of painter Arkhip Kuindzhi that was set on the artist"s grave (now on Tikhvin Cemetery in Saint St. Petersburg). He also made large sculptures for monuments in public spaces, including monument to Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky for the Saint St. Petersburg Conservatory (1897), monument to Alexander Griboyedov for the Russian Embassy in Tehran,Iran.
Monument to Yermak Timofeyevich in Novocherkassk. In 1908 Beklemishev chiselled monument to doctor Sergey Botkin installed at the entrance to the Imperial Military Medical Academy.
On 6 September 1919 he was arrested by Extraordinary Commission Against Counterrevolution, Sabotage and Speculation for his membership in the Constitutional Democratic Party.
On 18 September 1919 he was released from the jail, on 1 December 1919 he was forced to move from Petrograd (Street Peterburg) to Novorzhev in Pskov Governorate there he died on 21 December 1919.