From 1845 to 1849 studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts, where they often communicated with K. A. Trutovsky. In 1863 S. with a group of Russian artists, among whom were his countrymen-the smoke S. O. Borodaevsky and V. G. Schwartz, visited France in Barbizon on full-scale sketches. Upon returning to Russia permanently resided in his estate in Kursk province (S. Hanzhivka Kireyevka County). Here was created his most famous painting - "Farewell to the city lads, assigned to the recruits" (1860, State. Tretyakov gallery), "Guessing the girls in wreaths of marriage", (1860, Chernigov arts. Museum), etc.
Painter, genre painter and portraitist, rod. in 1823, he studied at the Moscow noble University, but without completing it of course, moved to St. Petersburg. and enrolled as a student of Uti. Academy hood. Here his closest mentor was Professor of A. T. Markov. Since 1849, he twice went to the Caucasus, where he painted and wrote a collection of local nature and folk styles and returned two years later in St. Petersburg. continued his studies at the Academy. In 1852, for the painting: "the Sale of slaves on the Eastern shore of the Black sea", was awarded the small. silver. medal. In 1854 lived in the Ukraine, where he wrote among other things the painting: "Haymaking" and "Caucasian landscape" (the mountaineers on the beach look out for the appearance on the horizon of the Russian ship), for which the Academy awarded him a large silver. medal. Since that time, S. was taken trips both within Russia and in foreign lands, visited Constantinople, Germany, France, Spain. In 1857, for the painting; "the Transcaucasian Gypsies", received the title of academician, and in 1860, "view of the East. the shore of the Black sea," "Children playing in a cemetery in Constantinople," "Farewell to the city lads, assigned to the recruits" and "little Russian girls telling fortunes by wreaths of marriage" (náchod. in the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg), elevated to the rank of Professor. In addition to paintings, written in oils, produced fine watercolours; all his works are characterized by originality, prochuvstvovaniyu and taste performance, bought by art-lovers before it was over. Unfortunately, from 1860 talented artist ceased to be with their works at exhibitions and almost completely abandoned the brush and paint. Of his paintings, in addition to the above, known "Night on Ivan Kupala" (K. T. Soldatenkov, Moscow), "Gypsy camp in the Caucasus" (in tsarskoselsk. Aleksandrovsk. Palace),"the morning after the wedding in little Russia" (in the Tretyakov gallery, Moscow), "Village liberty", "Kobzar", "Picking cherries", "returning from the fair", etc., and watercolors, "little Russian wedding", "Farewell mower with his sweetheart" (both the album pulse. Alexander II), "In the vicinity of Constantinople", "Malorossian with a child" (two Sepia, Tretyakov Gal. in Moscow), etc. {Brockhaus}
