Nikolai
Ivanovich Rudnitsky

He came from the nobility and was by birth a pole; at the end of the course of study at the Vilna Noble institution, he in 1846 was identified Radziwill Customs, where in 1851 was transferred to Bessarabia Breech Chamber, but the passion for painting came in 1855, resigned and went to St. Petersburg, where he was accepted into the class statues Academy of fine Arts (15 April 1855), two years later was transferred to the nature class, where he stayed for a relatively long time, and the whole of 1859, for "domestic reasons", did not attend classes; in 1861, the Academy has awarded the 30-year-old student-artist's second silver medal for a self portrait, and in 1866, the year gave him a certificate for the title of class artist; future activities and work of rudnicki unknown, but it should be noted that in 1864 the artist was asked by the Academy holidays (and got it) for the trip to Bessarabia "for art classes." (Cumans)