Konstantin Aleksandrovich Trutovsky (Russian: Костантин Александрович Трутовский; 9 February 1826 – 29 March 1893) was a Russian genre painter and illustrator of works by Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Krylov, author of paintings dedicated to life in Malorossiya, academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, member of Société Royale Belge des Aquarellistes.
[1] His primary education was in Kharkiv, Russian Empire then, after his father's death, he was taken to Saint Petersburg in 1839, where he was enrolled at the Nikolaevsky Engineering Academy and his aptitude for drawing was first displayed.
While there, he made the first known portrait of Fyodor Dostoyevsky,[1] (his former fellow student at the engineering school), became involved in the Petrashevsky Circle and narrowly avoided arrest.
[3] From 1871 to 1881, he served as an inspector for the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture then, once again, returned to his estate where he created numerous oils, watercolors and drawings of the landlord class, as well as the peasants.
[1] In addition to his paintings, he illustrated several works by Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Marko Vovchok, Taras Shevchenko and Ivan Krylov.