Ivan
Vasilievich Shikhanov

I was born in 1993 in St. Petersburg. I come from a family of artists. My father, mother, uncles and sister work in the arts. Naturally, since childhood I painted a lot and went to art school (in fact it so happened that I studied in three different art schools). Participated in the painting of the Nativity of the Virgin Church in the village Grigorievskoe and the Church of St. Benjamin in Tutaev, Yaroslavl region under the leadership of his elder uncle Michael Shikhanova-Kublitsky. Then I immersed myself in the world of the painting of the temple. It is a whole wonderful world with its own laws. In 2015 I graduated from Yaroslavl Art School. In 2021 I graduated from the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (church history workshop under the supervision of Professor, corresponding member A. K. Krylov, faculty of painting). Since 2018, I lead master classes in the art studio "Awakening". I also give private lessons in painting.