Afanasy Razmaritsyn

Afanasy Prokopievich Razmaritsyn (Russian: Афанасий Прокопиевич Размарицын; 1844 in Ukraine? – 1917 in Odessa) was a Russian-Ukrainian historical genre painter associated with the Peredvizhniki.

Biography He was born to a noble family, probably somewhere in Ukraine. Originally, he was employed at the Odessa office of the State Bank of the Russian Empire. He was fond of making pencil sketches of his friends, who told him he should take up art professionally. In 1874, he left the civil service and went to Düsseldorf, where he showed his work to Professor Eduard von Gebhardt, a Baltic-German who had studied in Saint Petersburg. On that basis, he was enrolled in the Academy of Arts. He apparently gave little time to his studies and was often ill. was named an honorary "Academician" by the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1910 and was one of the founders of the "". He dropped out of sight in 1916, and likely died the following year. The cemetery where he was buried was destroyed in 1935.

He worked very slowly, giving great attention to detail, and left relatively few works.