Claim: Alexei Korzukhin was a Russian genre painter who was born into a family of gold prospectors and entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in 1858.
Evidence: Alexei Ivanovich Korzukhin (Russian: Алексей Иванович Корзухин; 1835—1894) was a Russian genre painter. He was born into a family of gold prospectors near Yekaterinburg. He had started painting when he was still a child so, in 1858, he entered the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts where he studied under Pyotr Basin and Fyodor Bruni.