Andrei Karelin

The following year, Evgenia died while giving birth to their third child, Andrei [ru], who would become a well known portrait painter.

He later remarried, to Olga Lermontova, a distant relative of the writer, Mikhail Lermontov.

He and the painter, Ivan Shishkin, created an album of color scenes of the city for the 1870 Nizhny Novgorod Fair.

In 1878, he became a member of the French National Academy of Arts, and received a gold medal at the Exposition Universelle Another album of scenes of Nizhny Novgorod followed in 1886.

In 1898, he began making transparencies for magic lanterns; as a teaching aid for the public schools.