Yermolaev (Denisov), Peter (1779 -?)

Information about the life (and the work) Peter Yermolayeva (Denisov) fit into three short supply, and therefore give rise to touch the two sides of the artistic works during the artist's life.

 It is known that young Peter Yermolaev became a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1785. By this time, in this institution has become a proven system of training students. Five - year-old boy took to the Academy for Educational school training period of 15 years. Pupils from 6 to 12 years of mastering the technical drawings and ornamental plaster heads. The curriculum also included some general subjects. From 12 to 15 years with a painted plaster figures and nudes, were engaged in the basics of painting, studied architecture and drawing elements of the case. Of course, the children deprived of their talents in the visual business, with 12 years of education were transferred to the nearby to art crafts. From 15 to 21 students working in full-scale class, studying composition, painting, studied perspective, antiques, copying the works of old masters in the Hermitage. In parallel, they have been taught arithmetic, geometry, geography, French and Russian languages, mineralogy and other sciences, as well as music, dance, church singing. That is the fundamental training was P. Yermolaev, received at the end of it in 1800, a small gold medal and a diploma of the first degree for the program, "presents an evening."

 This means that a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts painted landscapes, that is not working in a prestigious at the time, located in the initial stage of development towards painting. Years later, Russian Landscape Painting, surpassing the genres of portrait and historical paintings reveal the world your uniqueness, power and beauty. Peter Yermolaev was one of the pioneers, though almost unnoticed among the domestic landscape.