Benkov Pavel Petrovich

Soviet artist, painter, graphic artist, theater decorator, teacher. Honored Artist of the Uzbek SSR, teacher at the Kazan Art School and Samarkand Art School. He studied at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1901–1909, with a break). In 1905–1906 he visited Paris and studied at the Academy of R. Julien. From 1930 he lived in Samarkand. One of the founders of Uzbek Soviet painting. He painted portraits, landscapes, and genre paintings. In the 1910s–1920s he designed performances in theaters in Kazan, Irkutsk, and Omsk. Since 1903 - participant of exhibitions. The artist’s works are presented in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Oriental Art, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, the Museum of Art of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and others.