Kryzhitsky Konstantin Yakovlevich (1858-1911)

The ability of the young Constantine Kryzhitsky for drawing was evident. That is why, after graduating from the Kiev real school he enrolled in 1877 at the Academy of Fine Arts. Teacher of the future academician landscape painting by Konstantin Yakovlevich Kryzhitsky was a wonderful artist and teacher , MK Klodt , under whose leadership the youth successfully attains iconic instrument. After learning of silver and gold medals K. Kryzhitsky receives in 1884 to withdraw from the Academy of the title of class artist of the first degree.

The main specialization of the artist became a landscape. Most of his works were shown at academic fairs since 1879, where he eagerly bought up by known or little-known collectors. The same picture of the artist as "Forest gave" (1889), "The May Night" (1886), "The Storm is going" (1885), "before noon" (1886), "Green Street" (1897), became the property of the imperial family or of the Academy of Fine Arts. There was also KY Kryzhitsky author of the wonderful watercolors and charcoal drawings notch. In the latter kind of art with him in his time, few could match.