Bocharov, Mikhail Ilyich (1831-1895)

Bocharov, Mikhail Ilyich [3 (15) .1.1831, Moscow - 13 (25) .7.1895, St. Petersburg], Russian painter and theater landscape. He studied at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and M. Vorobyov at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (irregular student, he graduated in 1858), Academician (since 1863). Scene-Emperor (treasury) Theatres (from 1864).

 Using the achievements of archeology and Russian landscape painting of the 1860s., Mikhail Bocharov sought to achieve historical authenticity and at the same time move the emotional beginning in stagecraft on national themes (the opera "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky, 1874, and "Vakula the Smith" by Tchaikovsky, 1877, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg).