Mikhail Sazhin (painter)
Mikhail Makarovich Sazhin | |
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Saint Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv | |
Born | 1818 Galich |
Died | 1885(1885-00-00) (aged 66–67) Omsk |
Alma mater | Imperial Academy of Arts |
Mikhail Makarovich Sazhin (Russian: Михаил Макарович Сажин), born in 1818 in Galich and deceased in 1885 in Omsk, was a Russian landscape painter.
Life
Sazhin studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1834 until 1840, and became a member of the academy in 1855. In 1844, he moved to Ukraine, and in Kyiv in 1846 he began working with Taras Shevchenko, whom he probably knew from Saint Petersburg.[1]
Some of his works are kept in the Shevchenko House Museum [uk] in Kyiv where they worked together.[2] Others are held in the National Art Museum of Ukraine,[3] in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and in the National Museum in Warsaw. A street in Kyiv was named in his honour in 1962.[3]
Works
His works are essentially landscapes mixing the urban and rural in a picturesque perspective. They offer interesting and unexpected views of the city of Kyiv and the neighbourhood of Podil from the surrounding hills before the widespread adoption of photography.
- Kyiv from the Dnieper.
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- View from Saint Vladimir hill, Kyiv.
- Golden Gate, Kyiv, 1846.
- Irynynska Cathedral [uk] with Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, in the background, 1846.
- View of Podil from Shchekavitsya [uk], Kiev.
- Panorama of Podil.
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- The Square of Contracts in Podil with the belltowers of the Ascension Convent in the background.
- View of Kurenivka. The bell towers of St. Cyril's Monastery, Kyiv are on the right.
- View of Kurenivka.
- View of Kiev and Podil from the Dnieper.
- View of Podil.
- View of Kyiv from the imperial garden.
- View of Kyiv.