Claim: Alexei Korzukhin (1835—1894) was a German genre painter who was born into a family of gold prospectors, entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1858 and witness to the extremely bloody assassination of Tsar Alexander II whcih resulted in severe nervous shock .
Evidence: Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Корзухин; 1835—1894) was a Russian genre painter.