Painter of "home scenes". Was the inspector of the Moscow School of painting and sculpture. In 1854 the Academy of Arts awarded 2 silver medals. (Kondakov)
Illustrator.
He graduated from the Kharkov University (1844). In 1859, he opened an evening drawing classes at the University of Kiev. In 1866-70 he was a inspector of the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture.
In creative and educational activities adhere to democratic views. Author of portraits, drawings and paintings on the Belarusian and Ukrainian themes (portraits of his father, 1838, S. Belenko,the 1840s, the Ukrainian writers Ivan kotlyarevskyi, R. Kvitka-Osnovyanenko, 1843; genre paintings "received a letter from the son", 1854; "Farmer in trouble," 1866. Known as the Illustrator of classic works of Russian and Ukrainian literature. One of the first illustrated "Kobzar" Shevchenko (1844, from J. de Balmain), "Woe from wit" by A. Griboyedov (1862), "War and peace" by L. Tolstoy (1866), "Provincial sketches" by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (the late 1860s). Illustrations for the book "Street types" A. Golitsin (1860) appreciated D. Pisarev.
