Background
He was born in Moscow, the son of the artist Vladimir Makovsky.
He was born in Moscow, the son of the artist Vladimir Makovsky.
And from 1894-1895 studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts at Saint St. Petersburg. He also studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
During the 1890s he was an active member in MTKh and was part of the Itinerant Movement from 1902, having begun exhibiting with them since 1899. He would continue exhibiting with the Itinerants until 1922, during which time he began teaching at the Imperial Academy of Arts (in 1898) and there became a full academic (in 1911). In 1924, he began exhibiting with another artists" group, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), but died shortly thereafter.