Alexander Dmitrievich Litovchenko (Russian: Алекса́ндр Дми́триевич Лито́вченко; Ukrainian: Олександр Дмитрович Литовченко; 1835, Kremenchuk - 28 June 1890, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter who specialized in depicting Muscovite Russia of the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Alexander Litovchenko
Portrait by Ivan Kramskoi (1878)
Born	(1835-03-14)March 14, 1835
Died	June 16, 1890(1890-06-16) (aged 55)
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1868)
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1863)
Known for	Painting
Style	Realism, Classicism
Movement	Peredvizhniki

Biography

Litovchenko attended the Imperial Academy of Arts and, although criticised by his peers for rather stilted compositions, was awarded a lesser gold medal for his rendering of Charon transporting the souls of the dead across the Styx. Along with several other young painters, he challenged the spirit of academism that was prevalent at the Academy and in 1863 left it to become a freelance painter, joining the Peredvizhniki movement in 1876.

In 1868, Litovchenko was recognized as an academician for his picture of a falconer serving at the court of Tsar Alexis (one of his several versions of the subject). Among his larger paintings, Ivan the Terrible Showing His Treasures to Jerome Horsey (1875) was purchased by the Tsar for the Alexander III Museum in St. Petersburg, and Tsar Alexis and Archbishop Nikon Venerating the Relics of Patriarch Philip (1886) was acquired by Pavel Tretyakov for his collection in Moscow (as were the finest of his portraits).

Litovchenko is also remembered as the author of seven murals in the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow and a set of icons for the Crimean War memorial in Sevastopol.

• Alexander Litovchenko's works
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  Ambassador Horatio Calvucci sketching the favorite falcons of Tsar Alexis I (1889)
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  Tsar Alexis praying before the relics in the presence of Metropolitan Philip and Patriarch Nikon
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  Charon Carrying Souls Across the River Styx (1861)
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  Ivan the Terrible showing his treasures to Jerome Horsey, the English Ambassador (1875)

References

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

External links

Media related to Alexander Litovchenko at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

[de] Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Litowtschenko

[fr] Aleksandre Litovtchenko

[ru] Литовченко, Александр Дмитриевич