14 Facts About Alexey Bogolyubov

Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov was a Russian landscape and seascape painter.

In 1841, Alexey Bogolyubov graduated from military school, serving in the Imperial Russian Navy and travelling with the fleet to many countries.

Alexey Bogolyubov retired as a navy officer and was appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters.

In Rome, he was acquainted with Alexander Ivanov, who convinced Alexey Bogolyubov to focus more on drawing.

In Dusseldorf, Alexey Bogolyubov took classes from the painter Andreas Achenbach.

Alexey Bogolyubov painted the frescoes in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.

Alexey Bogolyubov exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor.

Alexey Bogolyubov's paintings lost all traces of Romanticism, replacing that element with staunch realism of the natural.

In 1873, Alexey Bogolyubov left the Academy in solidarity with his fellow Itinerants.

Alexey Bogolyubov even tried to create an alternative Russian Academy of Arts in Rome.

Alexey Bogolyubov's house was like a Russian colony: frequent visitors included Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasily Vereshchagin.

In 1885, Alexey Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather.

The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Alexey Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission.

Alexey Bogolyubov left all his money and capital to the museum and its painting school.