Leonard (Leonid) Turzhansky

Painter. Born in the family of a doctor called Victor Turzhansky in Ekaterinburg (1875). Studied at the Central School of Technical Drawing (1895), Stroganov School of Art and Industry (1896–97) and under Alexei Stepanov, Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1898–1909). Member of the Union of Russian Artists (from 1910), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1911) and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1924). Died in Moscow (1945). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1900). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1904–12), Union of Russian Artists (1904–23), Free Creativity (1914, 1915), Unification (1925), Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1926, 1927), international exhibitions in Rome (1911), Munich (1913), Malmö (1914) and Bergamo (1917), Exhibition of Russian Art in London (1910) and Die erste russische Kunstausstellung in the Galerie Van Diemen at 21 Unter den Linden in Berlin (1922).