Pavel kovalevsky biography

War correspondents have appeared, probably, the first periodical printed matter. Only instead of the Leica photographers, for example, the great Patriotic war photographers of the second half of the XIX century, assigned to the army, had to carry notebooks, pencils and other art supplies that allowed them to sketch to capture the moment of the battle or event associated with the war.

Who had a penchant for painting the son of a Professor of the University of Kazan Pavel Osipovich Kovalevsky chose battle class, when in he entered the Academy of fine arts. By that time, the Academy has developed certain traditions training battle painting, a strong impetus to the development of which has given the Patriotic war of After graduating under the supervision of B.

P. Villevalde Academy, artist in his pensioner's trip to Italy for the painting "Excavation in the vicinity of Rome" () obtained the title of academician. After returning to Russia, travels through the Caucasus — a place, a specia