Piotr Buchkin

Piotr Dmitrievich Buchkin
Born	22 January 1886 Safronovo, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	21 June 1965 Leningrad, Soviet Union
Nationality	Russian
Education	Repin Institute of Arts
Known for	Painting, drawing, art teaching
Movement	Realism

Piotr Dmitrievich Buchkin (Russian: Пё́тр Дми́триевич Бучки́н; 22 January 1886 – 21 June 1965) was a Soviet and Russian painter, watercolorist, graphic artist, illustrator, and art teacher, Honored Arts Worker of the RSFSR. Buchkin lived and worked in Leningrad and was a member and one of the founders of the Leningrad branch of Union of Artists of Russian Federation and representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his portrait painting.

Piotr Buchkin was born on 22 January 1886 in Sofronovo village, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire. In 1891 his family moved to the city of Uglich on the Volga River. First drawing lessons future artist had received from local icon painters.

In 1899 Piotr Buchkin comes to Saint Petersburg. He engaged in School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz, where studied of Nikolai Koshelev.

In 1904 Piotr Buchkin entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied of Vasiliy Mate and Vasily Savinsky. In 1912 he graduated from the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts in Vasiliy Mate personal Art studio. He received the title of the artist with the right of teaching in schools. In 1912–1914 as a pensioner of the Academy of Arts Buchkin visited Italy, France, Germany, Spain and some other countries.

Since 1907 Buchkin has participated in art exhibitions. He painted portraits, genre paintings, landscapes, worked as illustrator for the theatre magazines and books. He worked in technic of watercolor, pencil, pastels, etchings, oil and tempera paintings. In 1920s Buchkin painted from the life Vladimir Lenin and Fedor Shalyapin.

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