Alexander
Stepanovich Yanov

Russia • 1857−1918

A Muscovite by birth, Alexander S. Yanov he received his artistic education at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture. Like many graduates of the school, Alexander started a genre and historical painter ("the Sleeping Prince", "Order in Moscow", "the Monk-painter"). In subsequent years, the artist became interested in stagecraft, working in the Moscow private law.

In 1888, the artist moved to Saint Petersburg and for several months engaged in the Academy of arts. Yet the desire for decorative art muted passion in other areas of painting - A. S. janoff was the decorator of the Imperial theatres in St. Petersburg. Especially successful was his design of the Opera "Romeo and Juliet", where viewers remembered the scenery for the prologue with cell Lorenzo and the arch in the Renaissance style.

As a painter A. S. Yanov his work was close to the Association of traveling art exhibitions exhibitions in which he participated regularly. The wizard was in demand among serious collectors, among whom were P. M. Tretyakov.

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