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Painter, draughtsman. Born in the family of Sophron Bogomolov-Romanovich (1830). Studied landscape painting under Maxim Vorobyov at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1853–57). Awarded a minor silver medal (1853), major silver medal (1854), minor gold medal (1855) and a major gold medal and three-year foreign fellowship (1857). Visited Berlin (1857) and Savoy (1858). Fellow of the Imperial Academy of Arts in Geneva (1858–59). Fourteenth-class artist (1859), academician of landscape painting (1862). Painted a portrait of Ivan Turgenev (1854) and worked in Kovno Province in Lithuania (1861–63). Led a dissolute lifestyle (from 1850s) and contracted consumption (1860s). Died in a hospital in St Petersburg and buried at the Smolensk Cemetery (1867). Contributed to the exhibitions of the Imperial Academy of Arts (from 1850s).