Peter
Semyonovich Petrukhanov

Russia • Saint Petersburg • 1885−1977
painter. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
Born in 1885 in St. Petersburg, Tsaritsyn. Studied at the Academy of Arts under E.V. Savinsky and I.E. Repin. In 1912, as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts, he went to Europe to continue his painting education. About five years lived in Italy and Switzerland. White officer. Traveling through these countries he improved his professional level and accumulated rich artistic material. After 1917 he returned to Russia. He took part in the Civil War on the side of the Bolsheviks. With the onset of peace time earned a living by painting and painting lessons. Taking into account the political situation in the country, P.S. Petrukhanov did not take an active creative position due to his social origin and due to his long stay abroad before 1917. Therefore, there is no information about participation in creative associations of artists. In the 1930s he was employed as a drawing teacher in a boarding school for hearing-impaired children and worked there until the late 1970s. During the Great Patriotic War he was evacuated with the boarding school to Siberia, where he continued teaching and creative activity. He made creative trips to Georgia, the Volga region, to the Black Sea in Anapa. Wife Petrukhanova Valentina Nikolaevna (1920s(?)-2000(?)) Graphic artist. In the creative heritage of the artist prevails landscape, still life, portrait. He died in 1977 in Leningrad.
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