Background
Sergey Solomko was born on August 10, 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). He was the son of Major-General Sergey Solomko and Olga Faustovna Zanadvorova.
Sergey Solomko was born on August 10, 1867 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). He was the son of Major-General Sergey Solomko and Olga Faustovna Zanadvorova.
During the period from 1883 to 1887, Sergey studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1887, Solomko enrolled at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied for a year.
At the end of the 1880s, Solomko started to work as a magazine illustrator. His first known work was Sever (North), a weekly literary journal, that began publication in 1888. Some time later, the painter started to work for Niva magazine. During that period, Sergey also worked for Mir Iskusstva (World of Art) and a satirical journal called Shoot (The Fool).
In the 1890s, he produced illustrations for stories by Pushkin and Chekhov and the poem The Song of the Merchant Kalashnikov by Lermontov. In 1901, Solomko was one of several artists, who illustrated a special edition of Dead Souls by Gogol, published by Adolf Marks.
Sergey Solomko also designed theater posters and a popular series of postcards, depicting old Russia.
After 1900, he started to create models for the Imperial Porcelain Factory and worked with the House of Fabergé.
In 1903, Sergey created sketches for elaborate historical costumes for the famous Ball in the Winter Palace. Guests at the ball paid a lot for them, as many were made with real jewelry.
In 1910, he left for Paris, but continued to exhibit in Russia and contribute to Russian magazines.
During World War I, Solomko painted portraits of the officers of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France for eventual use in a war museum.
In 1921, he took part in an exhibition held by the painters from the former Imperial Academy of Arts.
Reading
St. Jenevieve and the new Attila
Visiting
Bookplate of V. I. Klochkov
Persian woman twisting a carpet
New Russia - Sow a reasonable, good, eternal
Venetian. Sketch.
Mermaid and faun
The girl with monkey
Meeting
Vive la France!
Promise
Age of quietest King (Aleksey Mikhailovich)
Meeting
Portrait of italian young man
Blue Bird (Bird Sirin)
Design of male medieval costume
Young woman in hat
Virgo comforter
Waiting
Thanks
Conversation
Who
Wedding ceremony. Middle Ages.
Date
Tenderness
Love of country shall give them the victory
Date
Age of Vladimir and Yaroslav
Love talk
What have they done with my home?
The Wreckage
In pursuit of
Human Shield
Bookplate of V. I. Klochkov
Costume Designs
For you, brave soldier
Squash
The enemy conseals himself!
By the fence
Moscow in the XII century
Russian beauty with the traditional headdress
Joseph and Potiphar's wife
Guard
Queen Azvyakovna
Nastassja Korolevichna
Bookplate of V. I. Klochkov
Letter to William Pope
Costume Designs
Meeting
Age At the dawn of history. Amazon.
Declaration of love
Jokester
Vasilisa Mikulishna
True Friends
Pearl of Creation
Age of blessed memory of the 12th year
Blarney
Rivals
Russian in the Netherlands at the time of Peter the Great
St. George, coming to the rescue
Forever together
Concubine
Red Cross
Bookplate of V. I. Klochkov
XVII century
Sketch of the poster. Pillory.
Flirting Boyar
Couple in the boat
Song without words
Fortune is silver but victory is gold
Banquet
Seducer
Meeting
Idyll
Evening
Dream of Icarus
Young lovers
Embrace
Scribe
Ripe fruits
Defeated
Tough response
The Pursuit of Happyness
Meeting
Seducer
Returning from matins
Question
Sketch of the costume
Costume Designs
Bird-fancier
The Nocturne Review
Age Scythian tsarevna. III th century BC
The red blood of Garibaldi
Blessed be the house where a stork nested
Fairy tale
Evening Walk
Byzantium
Pledge of Love
Hide and Seek
Two sketches of costumes
On the way to victory
On the bridge
Date
Caught
Zabava Putyatichna
A serious question
Find
Apraxia Korolevichna
Small chicken become great eagle
Temptation
Age of the Great Kings
Pledge of Love
Age At the turn of XX century
Place de la Republic and of Happyness
Bacchus
The head of the Roman youth
Lady with Peacock
At the fair
Glowworm
Proud
Parting
Christ is Risen
Fantasy
Poland
Escape
Maria Swan White
Awaiting Response
XVIII century
France blesses his children before the Sacred Heart of Jesus
The admired beauty
Costume Designs
To the light of science
Russian Types
Vanity
Parisian
Fortune-telling
Age of the Great Peter
Memory
Priestess