Background
Vasily Nikandrovich Sokornov was born on February 27, 1867, in the village Vasilyevskoe, Shuysky district, Vladimir Region, Russian Federation.
Imperial Academy of Arts
Vasily Nikandrovich Sokornov was born on February 27, 1867, in the village Vasilyevskoe, Shuysky district, Vladimir Region, Russian Federation.
Vasily Nikandrovich received primary education at the Lushnikovsky school near Voronezh, then studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1887, he was enrolled as a nondegree student at the painting department of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts. At the same time, he got a job as a Retoucher in the photo Studio of master Pazetti, learning how to make artistic design and photographic plates there.
Since 1887, Vasily Nikandrovich was a volunteer at the department of painting the Imperial Academy of Arts, simultaneously retouched Petersburg photographer A.I. Pasetti. For health reasons, Vasily Nikandrovich left for treatment in Alupka, where he stayed to live.
The views of Crimea taken by Vasily Nikandrovich were exhibited at photo exhibitions in Paris, Saint Petersburg, Kiev, and other cities. Vasily Nikandrovich worked mainly in the landscape genre. Sokornov’s works were published in magazines, guidebooks, and photo albums. Since the early 1900s, a series of "open letters" of Paris was published in Yalta, Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Rostov-on-Don, Dresden, Stockholm. In 1911-1914, 1917-1937 were released postcards with landscape from Sokornov’s photographs and they were produced in significant print runs.