BOCHAROV Michael I.

January 3, 1831 (Epifansky county Tula Province) - July 13, 1895 (Strelna St. Petersburg Province)

painter, graphic artist, set designer.

born in the family of a serf. In 1848 entered MUZhViZ, studied at KI Rabusa. In 1850 traveled to the province of Tula to write the kinds of nature. From 1852 worked in the IAH in St. Petersburg as volnoprihodyaschego pupil from 1856 - as a regular student in a class of landscape painting in MN and SM Sparrow. During the study received all existing academic awards: in 1853 he was awarded a small silver medal for the painting "View of the Sparrow Hills in Moscow in 1855 - a large silver medal for landscape from nature in 1857 - a small gold medal for" View in Kuntsevo near Moscow. In the same year received the title of class artist of 2 nd degree. In 1858 a program of their own choosing "View Mount Ai-Petri on the southern coast of Crimea near Alupka" was awarded a small gold medal, is released from the Academy class artist with a rank of 1 st degree and a pensioner's right to travel abroad.

In 1859-1861 was a pensioner IAH, worked in France, Germany and Switzerland. The advice of A. Achenbach, A. Kalam, masters of decorative painting Hildebrandt, Zimmermann and others. After pensionerstva in 1861 he settled in Rome. In 1863, in favor of the regular academic painting exhibition "Chillon Castle on Lake Geneva, Lake Nemm", "Albany Avenue", "View of the Roman Campagna," "Lake Geneva from Savoy Bank and others awarded the title of academician of landscape painting.

In 1864 he returned to St. Petersburg, was appointed as the decorator of the Imperial Theater, where he worked until his death. He painted scenery for the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg and the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow: designed the staging of "Boris Godunov" by Mussorgsky, 1874; "Vakula Tchaikovsky, 1877;" La Bayadere " LF Minkus, 1877; "Rogneda, AN Serov, 1884;" magic bullet "Minkus, 1885;" Mephistopheles "A. Boito, 1886," Prince Igor A. Borodin, 1890; "Romeo and Juliet" by Gounod, 1891; "Iolanta" by Tchaikovsky, 1892; "Aida" by Verdi, 1893. Generate thumbnails of theater curtains. In 1874 participated in a mural in the auditorium theater in Kronstadt. In 1879 was approved by Academician of decorative painting. In 1883 to study theater and decorative art of Europe traveled to Germany, Austria and France. From 1879 to 1886 he taught a class in this Set Drawing School Society for the Promotion of Artists (Fine Arts).

In 1895 the artist was granted the Order of St. Vladimir of IV degree.

Bocharova works are in many museum and private collections, in particular in the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Russian Museum, the Scientific Research Museum of Russia Academy of Arts, the State Central Theater Museum im. AA Bakhrushin and others.