Engraver on copper; a peasant's son, rod. in St. Petersburg in 1726 (Rovinsky year of birth R. is incorrect); in the handwritten tale, filed in April 1744 General's audit, R. announced that his father is a farmer "Reevy Volodimerova County, Osipova monastery Ostashkovo settlement was released to feed in Petersburg", where he arrived in 1726; his father R. could not remember that he "went to Lavinia fish in the Vyborg and Narva, and to this day a did not return, and no news of him not available." Educated mother, b. in 1739 hit "in the Academy of Sciences of the drawing proceedings disciple", and in 1744 received a salary of 18 rubles a year, and in 1745 was appointed to Gmelina, among other artists, "for malevania collected them in the Kamchatka expedition of herbs"; while Gmelin repeatedly complained to the Conference of the Academy that were sent to him by the painters not doing anything and rarely comes, published by the Academy "Flora Sibirica", with numerous drawings shows that painters, including Rubomycin, did their job; many of the drawings of "Flora" art right; unfortunately, they are not signed, and to determine what exactly did Rubomycin impossible. From Gmelin R. remained until October, 1745, when, for the execution of more than half of the drawings painters were returned to the Drawing Room. In the same year, Rubomycin caught in the usual academic students of the time of the riot: drunk, with three companions, he robbed a cab horse; the coachman "was to tell them why they atomicaction take my horse", pupils of "the driver began to beat him and broke his nose till it bleeds", and when to help the coachman ran out of the "rogatochny guard servant", and "started beating and toponymy and knocked out his right eye and above the eye on the forehead." In the end, the students went to the police, which "for pedersoli" put "to inflict punishment cats," and after the sentence to send to the Academic Office. In 1747 R. from the drawing class were taken Grigoropoulou Chamber to the master, Ivan Sokolov, and his salary increased to 24 rubles per year. In 1750, Sokolov filed a petition to increase all of his engravers salary, and Racoviceanu expected to increase the salaries of 36 rubles to 60 rubles. per year. In addition to performing different engraving work, for example, in 1754 the "historical figures" Racoviceanu was entrusted the oversight of the Notched Chamber. D. rovinskiy, Dictionary of engravers, p. 275; "Materials for history of Imp. Academy of Sciences", vol. V, p. 552, vol VII, p. 70, 220, 272, 457, 658, 716; T. VIII, p. 369, 371, 726; V. IX, p. 176, vol. X, p. 659. P. Stolpyansky. {The Cumans} Rubomycin, Ilya engraver on copper; R. 1726, 1754, engaged in engraving historical. shapes, and to him was entrusted the supervision over the curved chamber at I. AK. N. {The Cumans}
