Egor Makovsky

Egor Ivanovich Makovsky (14 April 1802 – 9 August 1886) was a Russian accountant and artist, one of the founders of the forerunner of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

He grew up in Zvenigorod, until the age of eleven mostly in the house of his godfather Vasily Markovich Korotkov.

There, he became assistant to an accountant in the office of the Commission for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, a project still in its early stages, and also studied the art of the miniature under K. I.

[1] In 1827, Makovsky was appointed as an accountant in the Office of the Kremlin Buildings, headed by Prince Nikolay Yusupov, and served there until old age.

[2] Makovsky was a friend of the painters Karl Bryullov, Vasily Tropinin, Sergey Zaryanko, and Pyotr Sokolov, and the sculptor Ivan Vitali.