Grigoriy Myasoyedov

Grigoriy Grigorievich Myasoyedov (; – ) was a Russian realist painter associated with the Peredvizhniki movement.

Biography His father was a member of the minor gentry, and was the author of a book titled The Statistical Economic Review of the Southern Part of Tula Guberniya. He began his education at the Gymnasium in Oryol, but didn't complete his studies before enrolling at the Imperial Academy of Arts, where his instructors were Timofey Neff and Alexey Tarasovich Markov. In 1862, he received a gold medal for his painting "The Flight of Grigory Otrepyev from the Inn at the Lithuanian Border" (a scene from Boris Godunov by Pushkin).

Having received a stipend for travelling from the Academy, he visited Paris, Florence, Rome and Spain on study trips. He remarried shortly after (to the artist Kseniya Ivanova), but his suspicions lingered and he wouldn't allow Kseniya to treat Ivan as a son. For several years, Ivan was placed in the care of Myasoyedov's friend and colleague, Alexander Kiselyov.

In 1889, he acquired a large manor house in Poltava, complete with a park, ponds and gardens, where Ivan rejoined the family. While there, he painted a curtain and designed scenery for the local theater. He also organized an art school in 1894 and wrote a book about gardening. He resigned from the Academy in 1902, in protest over their teaching methods.

Although he worked on a variety of subjects, he always had a fondness for religious painting and was planning a triptych of "Holy Russia" when he died.

He was buried on his estate which, since 1926, has been home to the .

Selected paintings