He studied at the Odessa Richelieu. the school, in the odes. the city. real school and at the Odessa drawing school of the society of fine arts, from which he graduated in 1888 with a silver medal. In the same year, Kravchenko moved to St. Petersburg. and entered the Academy of arts, the class battle-painting of Professor Villevalde on 2 course. Clashes with the old. professors and reluctance to submit to their routine requirements brought the young artist to the consciousness that his further stay in the Academy is useless, and he went to Odessa. In 1891, Kravchenko went to Paris, where he worked in two schools: the Julien and Colarossi. With the assistance of a comrade, who studied at the Ecole des beaux arts, drawings Kravchenko was shown to the Professor-Roma, who willingly received him among his disciples. Classes in French. Academy of fine arts did not prevent the artist to work at home and execute several portraits, one of which (Dr. brissot) in 1892, was adopted in the Salon Champs de Mars, and drew the attention of the Parisian press. In 1893 Kravchenko exhibited in the same salon, etude of Russian students. At the same time, he met in Paris with A. S. by Suvorina and K. A. Skalkovsky that Kravchenko was persuaded to move to St. Petersburg. Back in Russia, Kravchenko has executed a number of portraits of prominent Sovrem. figures from nature. Having become acquainted in St. Petersburg. with the officer environment the guardian. regiments. Kravchenko gained access to the camps and maneuvers, and performed a series of drawings depicting the life and the types of soldiers the life guards Paolo a Ripa d'arno. p., which had the good fortune to bring the Imp. Nicholas II in 1900 on regiments. holiday. In early 1902 with Height. permission Kravchenko went to Manchuria and China to gather material for illustrer understanding of the campaign our troops in China in 1900-1901 He visited Mukden, Leoane, Port Arthur, Taku, Tianjin, Beijing, Tango, Shanghai-Guan city, Yingkou and in some points the great whale. wall. His correspondence from there published in the "New. BP.", and drew attention to themselves. All his experiences from this trip are collected in the picture they are the same book: "To China" (SPb., 1904). Upon returning from a trip Kravchenko was honored to be invited to Livadia, where he presented the Emperor a report on his journey in the form of hundreds of studies, drawings and sketches depicting the scene of fighting of 1900, the types of soldiers and Chinese. Beijing and many. etc. items. In subsequent years the artist has performed on these drawings and sketches series of paintings and in 1904.. he organized an exhibition of them in St. Petersburg. in 1905 — on the world. the exhibition in liège, in 1906 — in Moscow, and in 1910 in London. With the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war, went to K. D. V. and P. Arthur witnessed the death of "Petropavlovsk", they sketched and vividly described in "New. BP.". The theater of war Kravchenko remained, however, long. His impressions of the Russo-Japanese war described in his book "On war" (St. Petersburg, 1906). The events he reproduced in a number of pictures placed in albums "Manchuria" khudozh. Martynov, Zh. "Chronicle of the war with Japan," vol. D. N. Dubno, and ALB. "Chronicle of the war with Japan on land and at sea", ed. Vladimir Berezovsky. By order of the State. Imp-RA Kravchenko played a large portrait of His leaders. (for one germ. regiments) and a half-length portrait of color. pencils purchased It was Conducted-tion in the property. In 1913, Kravchenko finished a huge painting by order of His Majesty "Taking Beijing." Died in Leningrad on 22 November 1941, Lit.: New on Repin. Articles and letters of the artist. L. 1969. S. 95. 436. {the Military. Enz.}
