Ivan ivanovich shishkin biography

Ivan Shishkin was born in the small provincial town of Yelabuga. His father, a merchant of modest means, was a great lover of antiquity.

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In an effort to foster his son's interest in history he took him to the archeological excavations of the ancient Bulgarian kingdom on the Volga, where he was helping professor K. Nevostruyev from Moscow. In 1844 the boy was sent to the Kazan grammar-school, where he soon found friends with whom he could draw and discuss art.

The set-up of the grammar-school, however, was an obstacle to his aspirations and intentions, and after the summer holidays of 1848 he did not go back to the school —'so that I would not become a clerk', as he put it. Shishkin's autobiography gives some idea of his activities as a young man, having freed himself from the 'grammar-school with its narrow-minded formalism'.

In 1852 Shishkin entered the Moscow School of Painting and Sculpture and received a good grounding under the guid