Vasily
Kondratievich Sazonov

Historical painter, was born a serf of a man of the count N. P. Rumyantsev , who, seeing in him the hunt and the ability to art, defined it in your account in the students of the Academy of Arts in 1804. Doing painting under the direction of G. Ugryumova , S. showed such rapid progress in it, that, in respect of them, the count released him into the wild. Received during the passage of the academic year, two silver medals, was awarded in 1812 a small gold medal for the painting: ""Minin Nizhny Novgorod encourages donations to the salvation of the Fatherland, and in 1813 was awarded a large medal of the same for the execution of the program: ""to Portray loyalty to God and the Emperor of Russian citizens, who, being shot in Moscow, in 1812, went to his death with a firm and noble spirit, not agreeing to do the commandment Napoleonico"". Being released from the Academy in 1815, with the title of artist XIV class, S. lived with her the rights of a scholar until 1817, in which count Rumyantsev gave him means to go for further improvements to foreign lands. Settling in Rome, Pp. performed copies of paintings by ""entombment"" M. A. da Caravaggio ""the Love of heavenly and earthly love"" by Titian. On his return to St. Petersburg he wrote the historical stage ""Dmitry Donskoy on the Kulikovo field"" (located in the Museum of Emperor Alexander III ) and the painting is a portrait depicting count Osterman-Tolstoy during surgical operation performed on him on the battlefield of Kulm. These works, together with images, written in C. for the iconostasis of the Transfiguration Cathedral and the Church of the Tauride Palace in St. Petersburg, gave him, in 1830, the title of academician. Since that time until 1842 he had a lot of orders, mainly on the part of the Church painting, at times interrupting her to paint portraits. In addition to the above the iconostasis, executed in the image to the Trinity Church, in Izmailovo regiment, Gatchina Cathedral, St. Catherine Church in Tsarskoye Selo, Peter and Paul in Peterhof, and others. In the iconostasis of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg. S. has six images in the main vestibule of the Church Vvedensky Semenovsky regiment - image of the Savior, the three saints and the twelve apostles in the Church on the Aptekarsky island of the four evangelists. All these works show that their author possessed great resourcefulness and imagination was not particularly good at drawing; but its composition is characterized by a seriousness and thoughtfulness, and flavor, for all its conventionality and coldness, is not devoid of harmony and taste.