Afanasy Razmaritsyn

Afanasy Prokopievich Razmaritsyn (Russian: Афанасий Прокопиевич Размарицын; 1844 in Ukraine?

Originally, he was employed at the Odessa office of the State Bank of the Russian Empire.

[1] In 1874, he left the civil service and went to Düsseldorf, where he showed his work to Professor Eduard von Gebhardt, a Baltic-German who had studied in Saint Petersburg.

He apparently gave little time to his studies and was often ill.[1] After spending three years there, he took a trip through France and Italy and returned to Odessa in 1877.

He participated in the Exposition Universelle (1900), became a full member of the Peredvizhniki in 1903,[2] was named an honorary "Academician" by the Imperial Academy of Arts in 1910 and was one of the founders of the "Association of South Russian Artists [ru]".