Ivan Bugayevsky-Blagodarny (Bogayevsky)

Painter, draughtsman, illustrator, caricaturist. Born in Kiev in the family of a merchant called Semyon (Vasily?) Bugayevsky-Blagodarny (1773). Studied under Stepan Schukin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1779–94) and at the private school of Vladimir Borovikovsky in St Petersburg (1800s). Held a series of minor posts at the Ukrainian Head Post Office (1807–10) and the Ministry of Police in Kiev (1810–13). Transferred to St Petersburg (1813), where he worked for the Department of Social Welfare of the Ministry of the Interior under Alexei Stog (1778–1837). Illustrated Alexei Stog’s book On Public Welfare in Russia (1818) and drew a series of caricatures poking fun at Russian society (second half of 1810s). Nominated to the Imperial Academy of Arts (1822), academician of portraiture (1824). Painted icons, frescoes and portraits of Fieldmarshal Mikhail Kutuzov (1813), Elena Mokeyeva (1816), Major General Dmitry Jozefowicz (1818), Count Pavel Shuvalov (1819–23), Vladimir Borovikovsky (1824), Andrei Ivanov (1824), Alexei Stog (1828–30) and Prince Victor Kochubey (1837). Died at the age of eighty-six in St Petersburg and bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his collection of Vladimir Borovikovsky’s paintings to charity (1859). Contributed to exhibitions. Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (late 18th and first half of 19th century), Romanticism in Russia at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1995), Play and Passion in Russian Fine Art at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (1999–2000), Twosome at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2002–03) and St Petersburg: A Portrait of the City and its Citizens at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2003).