Mikhail Ossipowitsch Mikeschin
Mikhail Mikeshin ( Russian Михаил Осипович Микешин ., Scientific transliteration Mikhail Osipovic Mikešin ; born February 9, jul. / 21st February 1835 greg. In Roslavl , † January 19 jul. / 31 January 1896 greg. In St. Petersburg ) was a Russian sculptor and painter who worked extensively for the Romanov dynasty, designing a variety of monuments and statues in the major cities of the Russian Empire .
Mikeschin attended the Imperial Academy of Arts between 1852 and 1858 . His depiction of patriotic motifs, influenced by Romanticism , soon earned him sympathy with the Russian tsarist family, and he was commissioned to teach painting to the Great Princess (wife of the tsar's younger brother in the Russian Empire).
Although his strength lay in painting great battles, Mikeschin's design won the competition for the Novgorod Monument Thousand Years of Russia in 1859, which was followed with great interest by the public . From then on, he had a large number of commissions. He illustrated the prevailing motto “autocracy, orthodoxy and nationality” in his monumental statues of Kuzma Minin in Nizhny Novgorod , of Alexei Greig in Nikolayev and Tsar Alexander II in Rostov-on-Don .
Only a few monuments of Mikeschin survived the Soviet era. These include the monument to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg (unveiled in 1873), the Bohdan Khmelnytskyi monument in Kiev (1888) and that of Yermak in Novocherkassk (1904). Mikeschin is also the author of several monuments abroad, for example the statue of Peter IV in Lisbon .
From 1876 to 1878 Mikeschin was the editor of the satirical magazine "Ptschela" ( the bee ), in which he published his caricatures and illustrations for the works of Nikolai Gogol and Taras Shevchenko . Michail Mikeschin died on January 31, 1896 in Saint Petersburg.
National Monument Thousand Years of Russia in Novgorod (1862)
Monument to Catherine the Great in Saint Petersburg (1873)
Bohdan Khmelnytskyi monument in Kiev (1888)
Web links
- Article Michail Ossipowitsch Mikeschin in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
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| SURNAME | Mikeschin, Mikhail Ossipowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Микешин, Михаил Осипович (Russian); Mikešin, Michail Osipovič (scientific transliteration) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian sculptor and painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Roslavl |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1896 |
| Place of death | St. Petersburg |