Konstantin
Nikolaevich Filippov

While studying at the Imperial Academy of Arts from 1850 to 1858 under the direction of Professor BP Villevalde , received small and large silver medals and in 1853 a small gold medal for the painting "the Cossacks, beating off the French convoy in 1812". Was sent to act against the Turks army to draw episodes of the Crimean war.

In 1858, for the execution of the program picture: "Military road between Simferopol and Sevastopol in 1855" (located at the Tretyakov gallery in Moscow), was awarded a large gold medal.

Having spent a year in Warsaw, to write batalicheskih paintings by order of the Viceroy of the Polish Kingdom and received at this time a pensioner's content from the Academy, went abroad. He lived and worked first in Rome, where he performed, among other things, of the work: "the Italian forge" and "Jump on donkeys in Tivoli" (bought gr. Uvarov ), and then in Paris.

Coming back to Russia in 1863, made a trip to the Caucasus to study under the local vicar. In 1865, for the painting of very large size: "the Flight of the Bulgarians from the Danube by the retreat of Russian troops from under Silistra", received the title of academician.

The last time he spent on the southern coast of Crimea. Filippov was strict, but a clever draughtsman, who sought to make their compositions the genuine vivacity, in the color also did not differ special power, and his watercolors what, for example, a sketch of "the Flight of the Bulgarians" (in the Museum of Emperor Alexander III ), "the Old Italian guy with a donkey", "Sheep in a storm" and "Crimean steppe" (all three in the album of the Emperor), as well as pencil drawings (of which a lithographed "Russian Art Piece" B. Timm ), perhaps better pictures, painted in oil-colours.