Alexey
Ivanovich Korzukhin

Born on Uktusskaya factory (now Yekaterinburg) 11 (23) March 1835 in the family of serfs promyvalschika gold. Already in the 1840-ies wrote the icons for the local Church of the Transfiguration and portraits of family members. In 1848 the family moved to Ekaterinburg mint. After leaving in 1857 to St. Petersburg, 1858-1863 he studied at the Academy of fine arts. Received medals: in 1858 - 2 silver; in 1859 - 1 silver; in 1860 - 2 silver; in 1861, 1 silver and 2 gold for the painting "Drunken father". In 1860 it was liberated from the compulsory to service the mountain. Member of the "revolt of fourteen" (1863), was a founding member of the "Artel of artists" (1864) and the "Itinerants society" (1870), however, due to organizational and ideological differences (Korzukhin was against a too sharp break with the Academy and official art system as a whole) participation in exhibitions of the Association are not accepted. Lived mostly in St. Petersburg.

In 1868 received the title of academician for the painting "returning from the fair".

In 1860-e years has been his "classically-travelling art" painterly style, style comprehensive picture-novels, symbolically locking sad and dark or, conversely, more cheerful aspects of everyday life. Among the characteristic works Korzukhina: a Commemoration on a rural cemetery (1865), Bird enemies (1887), Have a morsel of bread (1890; all works in the Russian Museum); the famous last two pictures – boys-birders and a poor peasant girl, wistfully contemplating their hungry children. Great successes of the master was also of the canvas "Before confession "(1876-1877, 1st option in the Picture gallery of Tver, 2nd – in the Tretyakov gallery) and "the monastery hotel" (1879-1882, Tretyakov gallery), in the manner of N. With.Leskov depicting the folk life of the Cathedral in its colourful contrasts of the sacred and the secular. Often took Church orders, the largest of which was the participation in the beautiful decoration of the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior (1875-1877). The close proximity of secular and religious subjects (for example, the plan of the Monastery hotel were born in the period when he signed a contract for the painting of the Church in Yelets, visited St. Tikhon's monastery in Zadonsk) brought the best of his works to symbolism.

After witnessing the assassination of Tsar Alexander II, then experienced severe nervous shock. Since then, a lot of sick, though, and continued to work actively (singing, in particular, the Lord's supper for a Cathedral in Riga, 1891).

Korzukhin died in St. Petersburg 18 (30) October 1894.