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P. Stepanov, Claudius (1854 - 15.7.1910), a painter, a prominent right-monarchist movement in Moscow, the editor of Moscow's voice ", an employee of the Moscow News.
Serious painting classes Claudius P. Stepanov started in their early thirties. Until that time, he completed a course at the Lycee Crown Prince Nicholas in Moscow and the historical-philological faculty of St. Petersburg University (1877). In 1876 - 1877 years during the first eleven months volnoprihodyaschim student attended the Academy of Arts and managed to get her silver medal for drawing. In the years 1877-1878 Life guardsman Transfiguration Regiment Stepanov participates in the Russian-Turkish war. only in 1880, after two years of service, officer on special assignments at the Ministry of Finance, he went to Italy, where he settles in Florence, where resumes its way into the painting ( picture 1883 ). Since 1885 the artist's paintings held beginning to appear regularly in academic exhibitions in St. Petersburg. In 1888, the increased skill COMMENT Stepanova was appreciated by the Council of the Academy of Fine Arts - he was awarded the title of the class artist of the first degree.
The handbook Solovyov said about it: " In the genre of the artist attracted literary motifs, small scenes of the Renaissance (costume scene )".
Although signatures KP Stepanova Latin I have not found ...
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