Yefim Volkov

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, teacher. Born in the family of Yefim Volkov in St Petersburg (1844). Studied at the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (1866–67) and the Imperial Academy of Arts (1867–70). Painted landscapes of north and central Russia (1870s–1900s). Visited the Crimea (1879) and Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Greece and Turkey in the company of Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich and Grand Duke Pavel Alexandrovich (1888). Worked as a teacher in St Petersburg (1880s). Full member of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1895). Academician (1899). Died in Petrograd (1920). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1870). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists (from 1872), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1879), Exhibition of the Works of Vladimir Makovsky and Yefim Volkov at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St Petersburg (1902) and The Four Seasons: Landscapes in Russia (19th–20th Centuries) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006–07).