Complex sentence: Apollon Maykov was born into the artistic family of Nikolay Apollonovich Maykov (1796-1873), a painter, in his later years an academic of the Imperial Academy of Arts.
Split into simpler sentences: Apollon Maykov was born into the artistic family. His father was Nikolay Apollonovich Maykov (1796-1873), a painter, and an academic of the Imperial Academy of Arts.