Dmitry
Nikiforovich Martynov

The rules of the Russian Imperial Academy of arts was the provision according to which in the competition for the Grand gold medal (the owner in addition to recognizing excellence received the right to travel overseas) can participate, and artists who graduated from the Academy.

Dmitry Nikiforovich Martynov after graduating from the St Petersburg drawing school for coming and Academy of arts, where he led a Markov got for their students ' successes small and large silver and small gold medals, set a may record of participation in competitions. He regularly, since 1852, he exhibited his paintings for the contest. For the sake of interest we give his paintings: "Noah blesses his sons Shem and Japheth, and rejects them blagoslovennoe son of ham" (1852), "Esther before Ahasuerus" (1853, gold medal for "expression"), "the Boyars and the people in Kostroma Ipatiev monastery begging the young Mikhail Fedorovich to accept the Imperial crown" (1854), "Jesus Christ in the house of Martha and Mary" (1855), "Endor magician causes the shadow of Samuel" (1857). The last of these paintings has finally brought the artist a gold medal, the title of class artist and the pensioner's trip to Europe for a period of six years. All subsequent years D. N. Martynov worked in various genres of art. In 1864 he was awarded the title of academician of historical and portrait painting. He enjoys landscape and decorative painting. Finally, D. N. Martynov was widely known in his time as a painter, took part in the decoration of many churches and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, well-known artist as well as designer of theatrical buildings and performances in many cities of Russia.