Sergey Miloradovich

4 July] 1851 – 4 February 1943) was a Russian painter of historical subjects.

The son of a rural cleric, Miloradovich attended a divinity school in Moscow and served for 25 years as a sexton in the parish of the Gonchary Resurrection Church.

[1] In the early 1870s he became interested in painting and enrolled at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture where his teachers included such realist "itinerant" painters as Vasily Perov.

[2] Miloradovich's paintings chronicle the history of the Russian Orthodox church with a special emphasis on the events of the 17th century, notably the Raskol.

Media related to Sergey Miloradovich at Wikimedia Commons This article about a Russian painter is a stub.