Nikolai Yaroshenko
Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (1846 - 1898), Russian painter.
The son of a Russian army officer, he chose a military career,
but also studied art at Kramskoi's drawing school and at the Academy
of Fine Arts. In 1876 he became a leading member of a group of Russian
painters called the Peredvizhniki. Yaroshenko retired as a Major
General in 1892.
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