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Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky

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Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky (1873, Endrikhovichi, Grodno Province, Russian Empire, 1944, Prushkovo, near Warsaw, Poland) was a Russian artist of Polish descent. He became an outstanding representative of Russian landscape painting at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century, achieving mastery in the genre of estate landscape.

Born into an aristocratic family stripped of its possessions and noble rights for participating in the Polish uprising of 1863, Stanislav studied at a classical gymnasium in Warsaw and then at a real school in Bialystok. It was there that he became interested in painting thanks to Sergey Nikitich Yuzhanin, a graduate of the Stroganov School of Art, who became his first teacher. Zhukovsky always remembered him with gratitude. Yuzhanin, little known in Russia, spent a significant part of his life in Italy, where most of his works remain. He advised Zhukovsky to study at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts or the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture. However, Zhukovsky's father was against studying in Russia, and Stanislav decided not to inform him, going to Moscow in 1892. He graduated from the Moscow School in 1901, studying under I. Levitan and V. Polenov. Since 1895, Zhukovsky participated in exhibitions of the Wanderers, and his paintings "Spring Evening" and "Moonlit Night" were acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery.

Zhukovsky painted landscapes of Polesie and interiors of the Lazienki Palace. His solo exhibitions were held in Warsaw and Krakow. Later, his works were acquired by the National Museum in Warsaw, the National Gallery in Krakow, as well as museums in Poznan, Gdansk, Wroclaw, and Lodz. In the mid-1930s, the economic crisis in Poland led to a decrease in demand for artworks, and Zhukovsky faced difficulties. His first wife, Alexandra Zhukovskaya, sold twelve of his paintings in the Soviet Union and tried to persuade him to return, as he had long retained Soviet citizenship.

In October 1944, Stanislav Yulianovich Zhukovsky passed away in a concentration camp in Prushkovo near Warsaw.

His paintings, which are now regularly exhibited in the largest museums and galleries around the world, invariably attract many viewers.

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