Туржанский Леонид Викторович

Born in Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk) in the family of a doctor. He received his first advice on drawing from his brother. As a student of a real school he took lessons from a local artist N. M. Plusnin. In 1895 he tried to enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, but failed. Leaving for St. Petersburg, he studied there in the studio of L.E. Dmitriev-Kavkazsky, later working at the Stieglitz School. Then he studied in Moscow, at the Stroganov School, and in 1898 he entered the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, where he studied with V. N. Baksheyev, A. S. Stepanov, K. A. Korovin and Val. A. Serov. Serov had a special influence on the artist. After graduating from the school (1907) travels in the Russian North. Since 1908 begins to participate in the "Peredvizhnye". After the establishment of Soviet power in the Urals, participated in the artistic life of the Urals, taught at the Yekaterinburg Art-Industrial School (since 1919). In 1920 he moved to Moscow, where he became a member of the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia. Traveled around the country, worked in the Tula, Orel regions, in the Urals. The best works of the artist devoted to the nature of the Urals. A. M. Gorky highly appreciated the painter's talent for painting.