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Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov
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Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov was a Russian Soviet battle painter. He was born on the Don into a Cossack family. At the age of fifteen he began studying painting at the Odessa Art School, and then enrolled in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under I. Repin and F. Rubo. During his studies Grekov took part in the creation of Rubo's panoramas.
In 1911 Grekov received the title of artist and entered the Life-Guards Ataman Regiment. He took part in World War I, making sketches at the front, and was demobilized in 1917 because of a wound. During the Civil War Grekov voluntarily joined the Red Army and created a series of paintings devoted to Budyonny's First Cavalry Army and the victories of the Reds. His first solo exhibition took place in 1927. In 1930 he became a member of the AKhRR (Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia), and in 1931 he moved to Moscow.
Mitrofan Borisovich Grekov died in Sevastopol in 1934 while working on the panorama "Storming of Perekop". He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
15 June 1882
Date of death
27 November 1934
Occupation
Artist