Melnikov Andrey Pavlovich

1852 - 1930

Painter, graphic artist

son of the writer Melnikov Crypt. Studied in MUZHVZ (1870) by Vasily Perov, and then - in IAH, graduated from the Academy in 1883 with the rank neklassnogo (free), painter.

lived in Nizhny Novgorod. He served as officer on special assignments for the governor of Nizhny Novgorod (1888-1917), Inspector of the Press (1909-1917), member of the military censorship committee (from 1913). In March - October 1917 worked as a clerk at-Large at Nizhni Novgorod provincial commissar of the Provisional Government.

parallel with the service worked fine arts, ethnography, history of the Volga region. He is author of Essays on consumer stories Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair: A Century of Nizhny Novgorod Trade Fair. 1817-1917 "(Nizhny Novgorod, 1917)," Nizhegorodskaya old "(Nizhny Novgorod, 1923). Was one of the founders of the Nizhny Novgorod Society for Art Lovers. He worked as a landscape painter. Participated in the 18 th periodic art exhibition in Nizhny Novgorod (1918).