[1] Savitsky's family lived in the building of the Taganrog Gymnasium for Boys, where his father worked as a doctor.

Being on the shore of Azov Sea with his parents, he loved to make sketches, and drawing lessons at the Gymnasium were his favorite subject.

Personal contacts with outstanding representatives of Russian culture – Ilya Repin, Ivan Shishkin, Viktor Vasnetsov, Mark Antokolski, Stasov, Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin – had a great influence on the development of the young artist.

The titles of his artworks – Lost all their possessions in the fire, To the War, Herdsmen, Krutchnik, Argument at the Bound – speak about the direction of his art.

His famous artworks are Repairing the Railroad, Morning in a Pine Forest, To the War, Inok, Travellers in Auvergne, Ikon on the Road & many more.