Alexander Wolkoff-Muromtsev <br>(A. N. Roussoff)
| Alexander Wolkoff-Muromtsev (A. N. Roussoff) | |
|---|---|
| Born | Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov January 23, 1844 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| 💀Died | May 21, 1928 (aged 83–84) VeniceMay 21, 1928 (aged 83–84) |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Russian |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| Known for | Watercolors of Venice |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Alice Gore |
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Alexander Nikolaevich Volkov-Muromtsev (St. Petersburg, 1844 — Venice, 1928), Russian artist, well known in Europe for his watercolors of Venice. Signed his paintings as A. N. Roussoff. Was the owner of Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff on the Grand Canal.[1]
Biography[edit]
In his early childhood lived in Florence. In 1853 family moved to Warsaw. In 1860 he entered the Faculty of Mathematics of the Imperial University of Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia) where he studied chemistry, physics and botany. After receiving a diploma in agronomy сontinued his studies at the Heidelberg University (Germany) where he has got his doctorate for research of light impact on chlorophyll.
In Russia he had a failed love affair when his father married his bride-to-be. But later in Heidelberg he has met Alice Gore, an Englishwoman of Australian origin. They've got married in London.
Till 1871 they lived on the family estate in the Pskov province then came back to Germany where Volkov was occupied with botanical researches. In this period in Dresden and Munich he started to take private lessons of painting. Since his income from estate was not enough for living, he became a faculty member at the Plant physiology department of the Imperial Novorossiysk University [ru] (nowadays Odessa University, Ukraine).
During Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 served as a Vice President of the International Committee of the Red Cross.
In 1880 he left his career of a scientist and moved to Venice, Italy where has started to paint pictorial vedute. His first exhibition was held in London with a commercial success. In 1883 he bought a house next to Palazzo Dario on the Grand Canal, known as Palazzo Barbaro Wolkoff.
Some of his works were acquired by Pavel Tretyakov and by the Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, whom he met in person. He was well acquainted to many noblemen, artists and musicians of the time, including Richard and Cosima Wagner[2] and Franz Liszt. He had lasting relationship with an actress Eleanor Duse[2] who lived in his house.
At the beginning of the 20th century he obtained a second surname Muromtsev [ru] when a distant relative unexpectedly left him a fortune including Balovnevo estate [ru] in Lipetsk province, on terms to take his family name.
Has three children: the eldest son Vladimir Volkov-Muromtsev who moved to London, Vera Volkova and Gavrila Volkov.
Buried on the Isola di San Michele on the site next to Sergei Diaghilev, together with Vera and Gabriel.
His memoirs were published in 1928 after his death, in translation into English presumably from French (the original manuscript was lost). His grandson Nikolai Vladimirovich Volkov-Muromtsev also wrote a memoirs published by Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
Bibliography[edit]
- Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff А. L’à peu près dans la critique et le vrai sens de l’imitation dans l’art: Sculpture. Peinture, Bergamo, Officine dell’Istituto Italiano d’Arti Grafiche, 1913.
- Memoirs of Alexander Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff (A. N. Roussoff) / Transl. by H. Jackson. L.: J. Murray. 1928.
- Wolkoff-Mouromtzoff А. L’impressionismo nella pittura e l’utilità delle mostre, Venezia, Libreria Emiliana, 1929.
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- ↑ Palazzo Wolkoff. Memoirs of a Russian Venetian
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Sheehy, Helen (2009). Eleonora Duse: A Biography. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-307-48422-2. Retrieved 19 June 2020. Search this book on
- Russian nobility
- Botanists of the Russian Empire
- Painters from the Russian Empire
- Pseudonymous artists
- Painters from Venice
- Italian vedutisti
- Russian watercolorists
- Italian watercolourists
- University of Tartu alumni
- Heidelberg University alumni
- Odessa University faculty
- 20th-century memoirists
- Memoirists of the Russian Empire
- Burials at Isola di San Michele
- 1844 births
- 1928 deaths
