Sazhin Mikhail Kravchuk (1818 - 1887)

Life Mikhail Kravchuk Sazhina largely a mystery to us because of the paucity of information about his life, surviving. Art historians and art critics are also not left any lengthy dissections of his work.

The fact that he has not been deprived of the well-known artistic abilities, according to the years of staying young M. Sazhina as volnoprihodyaschego student at the Academy of Fine Arts (1834-1840). After graduating from the Academy with the rank of class artist, he is called, a drop began to increase their skills. By 1854, it reached the level that gives the right to receive from the Academy of the title of "appointed." In 1855, for the painting "Interior view of St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev," the artist is booked for the prestigious title of Academician.

Apparently, in the future, without rising to great heights, but not falling below the good level of skill, MM Sazhin painted landscapes, interiors and prospects. Topics and left his furrow in the field of Russian art of the mid XIX century.