Kulikov Ivan Semenovich

Russian artist, painter, master of portraits and everyday scenes. In 1893, he went to St. Petersburg and became an assistant in the workshop of A. I. Morozov, who at that time taught drawing at the St. Petersburg School of Law, simultaneously carrying out small orders for illustrations, icons, and portraits. In 1894, Kulikov was accepted into the school of the Society for the Encouragement of the Arts. Under the guidance of teachers N.I. Makarov, A.F. Afanasyev, E.K. Lipgart, he masters the basics of graphics, painting, perspective and composition. In the fall of 1896, Kulikov became a volunteer student at the Academy of Arts at the studio of the artist V. E. Makovsky. However, less than a month later he moved to I.E. Repin. Since 1919, Kulikov worked at the Murom Museum, now one of the most significant in the Vladimir region. In 1947, in the house built by Kulikov’s father, where his family had lived since 1885, the artist’s memorial House-Museum was opened.