Fyodor Bubnov

Painter. Born in the family of Alexander Bubnov in Gatchina (1850). Studied under Ivan Kramskoi at the evening classes of the School of Drawing of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1863–67) and under a restorer at the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1865). Worked under Ivan Shishkin on the island of Balaam (1867). Enrolled as an extern student at the Imperial Academy of Arts, but did not attend classes (1871). Travelled along the River Volga with Ilya Repin (1870). First-class artist (1872), honorary fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts (1873). Member of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1868). Died at the age of twenty-three in Yalta (1873). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (1867–73, with interval), Imperial Academy of Arts (1872, 1873) and Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts (1872).