Chariton Platonovich Platonov

Khariton Platonovich Platonov (; 1842 – 18 September 1907) was a Russian genre painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Kiev. A majority of his works feature young women as their subjects.

Biography He was born to a peasant family. From 1859 to 1870, he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts where he was awarded silver medals for "success in drawing" in 1862, 1863 and 1867. Upon graduating, he was given the title of "Artist", third degree, and became a lecturer at a district school in Tsarskoye Selo. In 1889, his painting "The Little Jewish Girl" was purchased by Finance Minister Ivan Vyshnegradsky

After 1877, he was a resident of Kiev, where he taught at the Kiev Drawing School; founded in 1875 by Nikolay Murashko. From 1884 to 1889, he worked on the mural restoration project at St. Cyril's Church, under the direction of Mikhail Vrubel.

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