Louisa Bayura

150th ANNIVERSARY OF TRETYAKOV GALLERY

Louisa Bayura
Vasily Khudyakov in the Ulyanovsk Regional Arts Museum

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Vasily Khudyakov (1826-1871) was famous in the 1860s as a genre painter, the author of excellent portraits and historical paintings, and a brilliant graphic artist. A former serf, he became the only painter from the small Volga merchant town of Simbirsk to be awarded the honorary titles of Academician and Professor of St. Petersburg's Academy of Arts in the mid-19th century.