Nikolay
Avenirovich Martynov

He taught at the Moscow school of painting.Among his students were M. D. Yezuchevsky and N. D.Bartram.`Cm.N. D.Bartram.Memories of the artist.M.1979.`They say that the artist Ivanov wrote with Martynov, the head of John the Baptist for his picture of `Christ appearing to the people `.Also his two big canvases ` Break` and `Forest fire` were in the Rumyantsev Museum.He taught drawing in many famous noble families of Moscow,`see the memoirs of Aksakova-Sivers`.Left memories of visiting Yasnaya Polyana and meetings with Tolstoy.`Russkie Vedomosti`.1891. No. 309.The drawings were in the archives of Vasily Nikolaevich Lvov.1859-1907.Professor of Moscow University,zoologist,historian and publicist. Martynov was married to his aunt Lyubov Ivanovna,SD.Lvova.