Claim: Boris Sholokhov, a gifted Russian artist - master of the portrait, landscape, and the nude genre, was born in Borisoglebsk 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. 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.