Goravsky Apollinaris Gilyarievich. (1833-1900)

Goravsky Apollinaris Gilyarievich - a landscape and portrait painter (1833 - 1900).

 Goravsky was born in the village of Cleaning Igumen district of Minsk province in 1833 and came from an impoverished noble family.

He was engaged at the Academy of Fine Arts under the direction of M. Vorobyov and FA Bruni . In Dusseldorf worked with A. Achenbach, Switzerland in Calama, then in Rome and Paris.

In 1861, the academician. In 1870 sent to southern Russia to study Russian types. From 1865 to 1885 was a teacher in St. Petersburg. Drawing School of the Society for the Encouragement of Arts.

Of his portraits are known: Samoilov, Glinka (in the Tretyakov Gallery), Tsar Alexander II, Glazunov, Benoit, etc. From the main landscapes: "The River Svislach", "Crossing the Berezina," "View near San Remo", "View Lake Geneva, "" Swiss form ". Two of his paintings at the Museum of Emperor Alexander