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Painter, graphic artist. Born in the family of Gavriil Tikhov near Kiev (1876). Attended Morshank Realschule in Tambov Province (1890s). Studied under Vladimir Makovsky and Ilya Repin at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1896–1901, 1904–12) and at Alexander Makovsky’s private studio in St Petersburg (1901–04). Signed a joint letter with Nicolai Fechin urging Ilya Repin not to retire from the Imperial Academy of Arts (1912). Awarded the title of artist and a foreign fellowship (1912). Member of the Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (from 1916) and the Arkhip Kuinji Society (from 1917). Painted nudes (1910s–20s) and works of Socialist Realism (1930s). Died in Leningrad (1939). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1912), including the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1912), Society of Travelling Art Exhibitions (1916–18), Fifteen Years of the Red Army at Gorky Park in Moscow (1933), First Exhibition of Works by Leningrad Artists at the Russian Museum in Leningrad (1935), Twenty Years of the Red Army and Navy at the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels Institute in Moscow (1938) and St Petersburg: A Portrait of the City and its Citizens at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2003).