# Alexey Bogolyubov

Alexey Petrovich Bogolyubov (Russian: Алексе́й Петро́вич Боголю́бов; 16 March 1824 – 3 February 1896) was a Russian landscape and seascape painter.

## Biography

Bogolyubov was born in the Pomeranie village of Novgorod Governorate. His father was retired colonel Pyotr Gavriilovich Bogolyubov. Bogolyubov's maternal grandfather was the philosopher and social critic Alexander Radishchev.
In 1841, Bogolyubov graduated from military school, serving in the Imperial Russian Navy and travelling with the fleet to many countries. In 1849, he started to attend classes of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, where he studied under Maxim Vorobiev. The young painter was greatly influenced by Ivan Ayvazovsky (Aivazovsky). In 1853, he finished the Academy with a major Gold medal. He retired as a navy officer and was appointed an artist to the Navy headquarters.
From 1854 to 1860, he travelled around Europe and worked prolifically. In Rome, he was acquainted with Alexander Ivanov, who convinced Bogolyubov to focus more on drawing. In Düsseldorf, Bogolyubov took classes from the painter Andreas Achenbach. In Paris, he admired the artists of the Barbizon School. French painters Camille Corot and Charles-François Daubigny were good friends and collaborators with Bogolyubov. He also painted the frescoes in the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral.
Bogolyubov returned to Russia in 1860. He exhibited his works in the Academy and received the title of professor. For some time, he taught in the Academy. In the 1860s, he traveled along the Volga. His paintings lost all traces of Romanticism, replacing that element with staunch realism of the natural. In 1871 he was elected to the Imperial Academy of Arts.
From 1870, he became close to the Wanderers art movement, participated in all their exhibitions. He became a member of their board. Much older than most of the other members of the movement, he had reservations on their social ideas. In 1873, Bogolyubov left the Academy in solidarity with his fellow Itinerants. He even tried to create an alternative Russian Academy of Arts in Rome.
After 1873, Bogolyubov lived primarily in Paris, because of his heart condition. His house was like a Russian colony: frequent visitors included Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasily Vereshchagin.
In 1885, Bogolyubov opened an art museum in Saratov, the Radischev Art Museum, named after his grandfather. It was opened to the general public seven years earlier than the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow and fifteen years earlier than the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. The naming of the museum after the "first Russian revolutionary", Alexander Radishchev, was a direct challenge to the authorities: Bogolyubov had to endure a legal battle to get permission.
Bogolyubov died on 3 February 1896 in Paris. He left all his money and capital (around 200 thousand Russian rubles (approximately US$6 million)) to the museum and its painting school. The school was opened after Bogolyubov's death and named Bogolyubov's Painting School (Боголюбовское Рисовальное Училище). Among painters who attended Bogolyubov's School were modernist painters as Victor Borisov-Musatov, Alexei Karev and Pavel Kuznetsov.

## Collections of works

* Marine art & seascapes
* A review of the Baltic Fleet by Nicholas I at sea, from the deck of the ship, painting between 1850 and 1860. Central Naval Museum
* Naval battle (1859 painting)
* Russian squadron on its way to America in 1863 Central Naval Museum
* Exit from the Tagus River by the frigate Ilya Muromets in tug of the steam frigate Kamchatka. 1860s Central Naval Museum
* Yachts Derzhava and Zabava when opening a sea channel (1885) Central Naval Museum
* The Wreck of the Russian frigate Alexander Nevsky Central Naval Museum
* The Wreck of the Alexander Nevsky
* The Wreck of the Livadia, painting after 1878
* Shipwreck
* Rough sea National Museum in Warsaw
* The battle of frigate Flora against Turkish steamships near Pitsunda on 11 November 1853 (1854 painting)
* Attack by the boat Shutka or 'Joke' of a Turkish steamship on the Danube on 14 May 1877
* Fight of the steamer Vesta with the Turkish battleship Fethi-Butland in the Black Sea, 11 July 1877 (1878 painting) Central Naval Museum
* Capturing of Swedish 44-gun frigate Venus by Russian 22-gun cutter Merkuriy of June 1 [O.S. May 21] 1789.
* The Armed Cutter Merkuriy Capturing the Swedish Frigate Venus Central Naval Museum
* Battle of Athos in 1807
* Battle of Sinop in 1853 (1860 painting) Central Naval Museum
* Battle of Gangut in 1714
* Battle of Gangut
* Battle of Ösel in 1719
* Battle of Grengam in 1720 The Russian Museum
* Battle of Reval in 1790 (a free copy of Aivazovsky's painting)
* Battle of Kronstadt in 1790
* Siege of Petropavlovsk in 1854
* Russian frigate Pallada, 1847 Central Naval Museum
* Passenger steamship Imperator Nikolay ('Emperor Nicholas') off the Black Sea coast. 1840–1850s Central Naval Museum
* Imperial steam yacht Aleksandria of 1852 Central Naval Museum
* Shipping in Rough Waters
* Moonlit Night at Sea, 1874 The Russian Museum
* Imperial Russian troops crossing the Danube at Maçin. 1877 (1878 painting) Central Naval Museum
* Parade of ships of the Baltic Fleet on the occasion of the German squadron's arrival of 1888 Central Naval Museum
* Baltic Sea (1880s)
* Storm Tretyakov Gallery
* Pilots arriving aboard Private collection
* The frigate Razboynik, 'Rogue'
* Coastal view
* Coastal sceneru
* The Rainbow Radishchev Art Museum
* Sunset by the sea Kherson Art Museum
* The theme of two lovers meeting at sunset on the seashore near a pulwar.
* Russian Empire
* Petersburg at sunset 1850
* St. Petersburg. Sledging on the Neva, 1854 (full painting) Tretyakov Gallery
* Sledging on the Neva (detail)
* Bolshaya Neva. The painting in 1872.
* Mouth of the Neva, 1872 Tretyakov Gallery
* Summer Night on the Neva at the Seaside. 1875 Tretyakov Gallery
* Old Saint Petersburg Stock Exchange and Rostral Columns, 1878
* View of the Smolny Convent from Bolshaya Okhta, 1851
* Smolny as seen from Bolshaya Okhta, 1870s
* View to Saint Michael's Castle in Petersburg from the Lebyazhy Canal, 1880s
* Opening of the Saint Petersburg Sea Canal in 1886
* Fire in Kronstadt at Night, c. 1876
* Saint Basil's Cathedral Private collection
* View of Moscow from the house of G. I. Hludov, 1878.
* Moscow. View of Golitsyn Hospital and Neskuchnoye in 1879.
* Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 1880
* Kremlin illumination in 1883
* View of Moscow Private collection
* View of Moscow from Babiy Gorodok, 1880s
* Peter's Agricultural Academy [ru] in Moscow
* The Moskva River near Zvenigorod Radishchev Art Museum
* The dacha of Bogolyubov and N. P. Nechayeva (Bogolyubova)
* Port of Reval, 1853. Art Museum of Estonia
* Reval, 1853
* View of Reval from Suhkrumäe, 1853
* View of Reval. Lighthouse (Marina with lighthouse), 1853
* Offing (Baltics) (1854) Tretyakov Gallery
* Kizichesky Monastery, 1861
* View of Kazan. 1861. The Russian Museum
* Kazan in 1862
* Hypatian Monastery near Kostroma, 1861
* The city of Cheboksary on the Volga (1861) Tretyakov Gallery
* Baku. Street at noon (1861)
* Baku Promenade and its Maiden Tower
* Easter procession in Yaroslavl, 1863
* Competitions of troikas at the Simbirsk hippodrome (1863).
* Nizhny Novgorod Fair (bell row). 1862
* Nizhny Novgorod. Lower Bazaar (1878).
* View of Nizhny Novgorod, 1878 The Russian Museum
* Ablyazovo homestead, stubble and mills, 1860s Radishchev Art Museum
* Ablyazovo. Threshing, 1887
* A View of Saratov, between 1887 and 1888 Radishchev Art Museum
* Winter in Borisoglebsk before 1902 Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
* Kuzminki (estate of Prince Golitsyn), 1903 Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
* Kiev. The Palace Garden Radishchev Art Museum
* Konchozero [ru] Art Museum of Georgia
* Finland Radishchev Art Museum
* The Decembrists' exile to Finland, 1854 Radishchev Art Museum
* Livadia Palace
* France
* Storm in Menton, 1851 Radishchev Art Museum
* Pine Forest near Menton, 1881 Radishchev Art Museum
* Earthquake in Menton on Carnival night, 23 February 1887 (1887) The Russian Museum
* The surf in Menton, 1880s Central Naval Museum
* Yport. Fisherman's dwellings. 1858
* Fishing Vessel Entering Saint-Valery Harbor in Caux during a Storm c. 1859 The Russian Museum
* In the park (Forest of Fontainebleau, 1872) Tretyakov Gallery
* Honfleur. Sunset on the sea. 1870s The Russian Museum
* Le Tréport, Normandy, French Republic. The 2nd half of the 1870s Tretyakov Gallery
* Le Tréport (1883) Radishchev Art Museum
* Normandy, 1870. Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts
* A 1870 view in Normandy
* Normandy town, 1879
* Forest in Veules-les-Roses. Normandy. (1871) Tretyakov Gallery
* Veules-les-Roses, Normandy, 1880
* Embankment in Veules-les-Roses The Russian Museum
* The Watermill in Veules-les-Roses Radishchev Art Museum
* Île Saint-Marcouf near North Normandy
* Auvers-sur-Oise, 1881 Tretyakov Gallery
* The Oise River Valley. Mériel. 1880s The Russian Museum
* Moonlight at Pornic
* Pine Grove in Pornic, 1867 Radishchev Art Museum
* Pornic. France. 1867 Tretyakov Gallery
* Marseille-Fos Port 1860s Nikanor Onatsky Regional Art Museum
* Scenery outside Paris with woman and animals Finnish National Gallery
* Scenery outside Paris Finnish National Gallery
* Party in Paris between 1874 and 1875 Radishchev Art Museum
* In the neighbourhood of Paris. Écouen. 1880 Tretyakov Gallery
* Pathway. Écouen. 1880 Tretyakov Gallery
* Toulon, 1893 Radishchev Art Museum
* The Scene on the Beach, Brittany Private collection
* A village street in Brittany
* L'Isle-Adam, 1881 Radishchev Art Museum
* Turckheim, 1884 Radishchev Art Museum
* Saint-Valery Radishchev Art Museum
* Nogent-sur-Marne. After the Rain. 1886 Radishchev Art Museum
* Port of Rouen, c. 1889
* Port of Le Havre, 1852
* Le Havre, 1893 Radishchev Art Museum
* Bois de Boulogne Radishchev Art Museum
* Montmorency Radishchev Art Museum
* Nice Radishchev Art Museum
* Italy
* Venice at night, 1850s
* Venice
* Moonlit night. Grand Canal (Venice). 1850s
* Venice. Piazzetta Square. 1870
* Venice, 1870s Tretyakov Gallery
* Palermo, 1850s
* A View of Naples, 1851 Radishchev Art Museum
* Gulf of Naples
* Italian coast, 1854 Novosibirsk State Art Museum
* Little harbour. Capri. 1855. Private collection
* Capri, 1856 Private collection
* Rome, 1857 Private collection
* Castel Sant'Angelo, 1859
* The seashore (Sorrento), 1850s
* Sorrento, 1850s Radishchev Art Museum
* Pisa. View of the Baptisterium and the Cathedral (1863) The Russian Museum
* A View of Alassio, 1880 Radishchev Art Museum
* The seaside in Savona, 1880 The Russian Museum
* Vesuvius eruption
* View of Vesuvius from the village of Vico Private collection
* Ottoman Empire
* Mosque in Constantinople (1850s)
* View of Constantinople, 1856
* Golden Horn (Istanbul) 1864 Tretyakov Gallery
* Moonlit evening in Constantinople
* Sinop, Ottoman Turkey, 1856
* Denmark
* Yachts and Boats on the Water The Russian Museum
* Fredensborg Palace of 1867
* Copenhagen Harbor of 1868
* Belgium
* Antwerp, 1854
* Switzerland
* Alley in Zürich Radishchev Art Museum
* Lake Geneva (France, Switzerland) Radishchev Art Museum
* On the Tamina River, 1865 Radishchev Art Museum
* Bad Ragaz Radishchev Art Museum
* Netherlands
* A Fair in Amsterdam c. 1859 The Russian Museum
* Amsterdam, 1885 Radishchev Art Museum
* The Outskirts of The Hague, 1870 (The Netherlands) Radishchev Art Museum
* Katwijk in Holland (South Holland), 1870s Tretyakov Gallery
* Austria-Hungary
* The Outskirts of Vienna (Austria-Hungary, 1873) Radishchev Art Museum
* Franzensbad; Bohemia (Czechia)
* Franzensbad, 1873 Radishchev Art Museum
* Monaco
* Monte Carlo, Monaco Radishchev Art Museum
* Germany
* Bad Kissingen. Waterfall
* The Rhine in Bonn, Rhine Province Radishchev Art Museum
* On the coast (German Empire, 1889)
* An alley in the park. Liechtenstein. 1889.
* Bulgaria
* Valley in Bulgaria (1881) Radishchev Art Museum
* Unknown site
* On the seashore, 1856
* A Mountain Landscape, 1865 Radishchev Art Museum
* After the Rain (1865) Radishchev Art Museum
* Dyke construction. 1870s Private collection
* Autumn, 1879 Radishchev Art Museum
* Marina (quay)
* Portraiture
* Afanasy Radishchev portrait of 1855 Radishchev Art Museum

## Footnotes

* ↑ "The Peredvizhniki appreciated Bogolyubov's professionalism and the realistic principles of his work, but disagreed with him in defining priorities in art. Nevertheless, the "neutral" character of landscape allowed such truthful observers of nature as Bogolyubov to coexist in the association."
* ↑ Ilyina, I.A.; Devyataykina, N.I. (2019). "A.P. Bogolyubov and Association of travelling art exhibitions: features of interactions and their importance for development of the Russian landscape painting school". Культурная жизнь Юга России. Теория и история искусства. 1 (72). Saratov: 16.
* 1 2 3 4 5 Alexey Bogolyubov (in Russian) article
* ↑ Bogolyubov page on the site of Saratov Radischev Museum (in Russian)
* ↑ Posokhina, Marina V. (2023). "A. Bogolyubov and I. Aivazovsky. An issue of creative and personal relationships". RSUH Bulletin. "Philosophy. Sociology. Art Studies" (2). Saint Petersburg: 131–132. doi:10.28995/2073-6401-2023-2-127-140.
* ↑ "Bogolyubov A.P. Pisa. View of the Baptisterium and the Cathedral". rusmuseumvrm.ru. Retrieved 5 February 2025.
* ↑ "Art-каталог: живопись и графика - Боголюбов Алексей Петрович - Пиза. Вид на баптистерий и собор. 1863". www.art-catalog.ru. Retrieved 5 February 2025.

## Publications

* Bogolyubov, Alexei P. (2019). Ogaryova, Nonna V. (ed.). Записки моряка-художника (in Russian). Samara: Agni. ISBN 978-5-6043148-0-7.