Ivan Kazakov

Ivan Semyonovich Kazakov (Russian: Иван Семёнович Казаков; (1 February 1873 in Kasilova, Oryol Governorate – 16 October 1935 in Tashkent) was a painter and graphic artist; residing in the Russian Empire and later the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

Biography

He was born to a family of farmers. From 1888 to 1894, he studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He continued at the Imperial Academy of Arts under Vladimir Makovsky and was awarded the title of "Artist" in 1898.

His title included a stipend to study abroad so, from 1899 through 1900, he travelled to Italy, France and Germany. Upon returning, he settled in Saint Petersburg. For the next decade, he was a frequent exhibitor there and in Moscow.

In 1906, he requested and obtained a position as a teacher of drawing and calligraphy at the Realschule in Tashkent, which he held until 1910.

Burtsev's exile was later extended. Kazakov returned in 1933 and spent his final years teaching at the Tashkent Polytechnic Institute.