He was a serf of the Pafnutievo - Borovsky Monastery , and learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin and Louis Caravaque ; he also studied icon painting with Vasily Vasilevsky .
He was a serf of the Pafnutievo - Borovsky Monastery . 
 He learnt the art of the portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin , Louis Caravaque and the icon - painting from Vasily Vasilevsky .