Alexei Harlamoff

Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of a serf called Alexei Kharlamov in the village of Diyachevka in Saratov Province (1840). Studied under Alexei Markov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1852–68). Awarded a major gold medal (1868) and a fellowship of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Germany and France (1869). Visited Belgium and Holland (1871). Painted a portrait of Ivan Turgenev (1875). Founding member of the Association d’entraide et de bienfaisance des artistes russes à Paris (1877), member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1882), president of the Société des artistes russes à Paris (1896–1910). Died in his studio at 57 bis Boulevard de Rochechouart in Paris and buried at the Cimetière du Père-Lachaise (1925). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1873). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1874), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1879–1917), Weltausstellung in Vienna (1873), Exposition Universelle in Paris (1878), International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Glasgow (1888) and St Petersburg: A Portrait of the City and its Citizens at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2003).