Claim: Boris Sholokhov, a gifted Russian artist - master of the portrait, landscape, and the nude genre, was born in Borisoglebsk (a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vorona River near its confluence with the Khopyor) then began his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and ended his studies at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute of V. I. Surikov.
Evidence: He was a gifted Russian artist - master of the portrait, landscape, and the nude genre. Boris Anatolyevich Sholokhov was born in Borisoglebsk in the Voronezh Oblast. Borisoglebsk (Russian: Борисогле́бск) is a town in Voronezh Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Vorona River near its confluence with the Khopyor. Boris Anatolyevich began his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, and ended his studies at the Moscow State Academic Art Institute of V. I. Surikov with teachers including S. Chuykov, V. Yakovlev, A. Gritsaya, and also teachers D. Corin and D. Oreshnikov.