NIKOLAI NIKANOROVICH DUBOVSKOY

(NOVOCHERKASSK, RUSSIA 1859 - ST. PETERSBURG 1918)

Dubovskoy was born in Novocherkassk (province of Rostov, on the Don) in 1859 and died in St. Petersburg in 1918. He was born into a family of Don Cossaks. He studied from 1877 to 1881 at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg under Mikhail Konstantinovich Klodt. In 1886 he became a member of the Peredvizhniki (the Wanderers), a group of Russian artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative which evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870. The society formed in 1870 in St. Petersburg under Ivan Kramskoi, Grigoriy Myasoyedov, Nikolai Ge and Vasily Perov's leadership as part of the contemporary avant-garde artists’ movement towards democratic ideals in oppoisition to the ‘official’ centre of art. In the Peredvizhniki exhibition of 1884, Dubovsky showed Winter Landscape, which was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov, founder and owner of Tretyakov Gallery. In 1900, Dubovsky participated in the Universal Exhibition, Paris. Around this time he travelled to Sillamäe, Estonia, a popular destination for intellectuals and scientists from Russia. Other visitors to the town included composers Pjotr Tchaikovsky and Eduard Trubin, poets Vjatcheslav Ivanov and Konstantin Balmont, writer Endel Tennov, the inventor Boris Rozgin, and artist Konstantin Somov. In 1911, Dubovsky became a professor at the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg. He specialised in landscape paintings. 

Collections 
Dubovskoy is represented in the following collections: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, amongst others.