Ivan Yendogurov

His father, Ivan Yendogurov [ru], was a Counter Admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy.

While attending the gymnasium, he and his brother became acquainted with the landscape painter, Yefim Volkov, and decided to make art their career.

[1] After graduating in 1880, he began studying law at Saint Petersburg State University, but continued to take lessons from Volkov.

[3] Toward the end of 1898, the Imperial Academy held a joint retrospective for three artists who had died that year: Yendogurov, Nikolai Yaroshenko and Ivan Shishkin.

The following year, his mother endowed a fund at the Academy to establish the "Yendogurov Prize" for landscape painting.