Kronstadt son of a merchant of the 3rd Guild, clan. 1 June 1845; 21st October 1854, arrived in St. Petersburg in the Main German School (Peterschule), where he graduated from the 27th of March, 1865, and in December of that year he enrolled as a volunteer at the Academy of Arts, in the class of plaster heads. Volunteer Rusanov was until September 1866 when he introduced the verdict of Kronstadt City Duma to permit him as belonging to merchants, to enter the Academy of Arts. At last he was forced not only to learn art, but also General subjects. Unable to bear the examination in geometry (officially, Rusanov was not holding the examination in diseases of the throat), he remembered that he had a certificate of the Chief German School, and, therefore, he is entitled to hold examinations in General subjects: Rusanov and asked oznachennoe request to the Council of the Academy, which, agreeing with his arguments, allowed him to take the examination only on special subjects; but special items was difficult for Rusanov; for example, on may 20, 1869, he requested permission to hold the examination in term. To improve artistic knowledge Rusanov went, in 1867, at his own expense to travel abroad to Germany and France, in the year 1873-74 attended pedagogical classes in drawing and in the same 1874, before the graduation exam, brought "for the costume class at the Academy of fine Arts" in the gift of the halberd of Empress Elizabeth Petrovna. 26 October 1874 the Academy of Arts gave Rusanov certificate of the 2nd degree for the program "the charity of the Samaritan," and in 1876 recommended it as art teacher in high School humane Society. Archive Imp. Academy of Arts, case No. 87 in 1866 P. St—cue. {The Cumans}
