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Petr
Stepanovich Krasnov

Russia • born in 1878

Born in Novoselka in the suburbs. In the Moscow artistic society did not accept him because he was a peasant's son, but he still managed to get "free visitor" to the "original" class of this institution, where he received several medals for drawings and sketches. Using the same benefactor - Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - twenty-year-old artist receives the discharge certificate from the County Council, rejecting the use of land, and entered the St. Petersburg Academy of arts in Higher art workshops that he leads Repin (1903). After (1909) on the recommendation of the same Repin, he was sent by the Director at the art school in Ekaterinodar (Krasnodar), where he managed to raise the pleiad of talented artists. Krasnov did not forget their homes, often came, wrote a lot of paintings glorifying the nature of the Moscow region.

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