About Mikhail Peskov
Lived 1834 – 1864 (aged 29–30). Mikhail Peskov was a Russian painter and lithographer.
Mikhail Ivanovich Peskov (; 1834, in Irkutsk – 13 August 1864, in Yalta) was a history and genre painter and lithographer from the Russian Empire.
Biography He was born into a military family, stationed in Siberia. From 1850 to 1855, he worked in the office of the Irkutsk Provincial Government. He left to enroll in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under Alexey Tarasovich Markov. In 1859 and 1860, his work received several silver medals.
In 1864, on his doctor's advice, he went to the Crimea, seeking a cure for his tuberculosis. His friends at the Artel took up a collection and sold artwork to help support his recovery there, but he died, aged only thirty.
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Russian painter (1834-1864)
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Mikhail Peskov was born in 1834 in Irkutsk.
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Mikhail Peskov died on 1 August 1864 in Yalta.
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Mikhail Peskov was a painter and lithographer.
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Mikhail Peskov was Russian.
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