10 Facts About Mykola Pymonenko

Mykola Pymonenko is best known for his urban and rural genre scenes of farmers, country folk and working-class people.

Mykola Kornylovych Pymonenko was born 9 March 1862 in the village of Priorka on the outskirts of Kyiv.

Mykola Pymonenko's father was a master iconographer, of Ukrainian descent.

Two years later, Mykola Pymonenko enrolled at the school, where he worked with the painters Khariton Platonov, Murashko, and others.

Mykola Pymonenko married the daughter of Vladimir Orlovsky, one of his instructors.

From 1882 to 1884 Mykola Pymonenko studied at the St Petersburg Academy of Arts.

In 1897, Mykola Pymonenko was involved in decorating Kyiv's St Volodymyr's Cathedral and was awarded the Order of Saint Anne for his work there.

Mykola Pymonenko won a gold medal at the Salon in 1909 for his exhibited painting Hopak, now in the Louvre.

Mykola Pymonenko was accused of having become "corrupted" and was forced to sue the company to have the image removed.

Mykola Pymonenko was a true link between the painting of Shevchenko and Trutovsky.