Kurlyandtsev Stepan Semenovich (1770-1822)

Stepan Semenovich (according to other sources - P.) kurlyandtsev became a student of the Academy of Arts of strangers around the age of thirty years.

 (Recall that in addition to full-time students of the Academy - pupils, students, academics in the late XVIII - early XX centuries in the Academy there were categories of students outside of the regular schedule. This is primarily an auditor and foreign students - due to this, the number involved in the visual arts greatly increased. Thus foreign students as opposed to an auditor held research and training in the preparation of a large gold medal had the right to the title of the artist and a trip abroad at the expense of the Cabinet of His Imperial Majesty, or the Society for the Encouragement of Arts.)

 The Academy SS Kurlyandtsev studied under the guidance of Professor G. Ugryumova , known for his historical works of the painter. In 1800, a foreign student received a small silver medal, for the next year - is a big one. In 1802, SS Kurlyandtsevu awarded the title of "appointed" in academics, and in 1803 for the paintings "Suffering Savior" and "Tancred fighting the Argantom, while traveling Hermine, and Favtin vspomoschestvuet him" by winning the title of Academician. This meant that certain provisions in the Russian artistic life of SS Kurlyandtsev reached. Though nowadays the name of the painter is forgotten thoroughly.