KARDOVSKY Dmitry Nikolaevich (1866-1943) graphic artist, painter, pedagogue, honoured worker of arts of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (1929). He was trained at the Academy of Arts (1892-96, 1900-02) under P. P. Chistyakov and I. E. Repin and at the school of A. Azbe in Munich (1896-1900). In 1892-1918, he lived in St. Petersburg. From 1907, he lived at Tsarskoe Selo, at 35 Konyushennaya Street. From 1920, he lived in Moscow. He was a graphic realist artist, he illustrated Russian classics: Kashtanka by A. P. Chekhov (1903), Woe from Wit by A. S. Griboedov (1907-12), The Inspector General (1922-33), Nevsky Prospect (1904) by N. V. Gogol etc.; the theme of his paintings and drawings was history (On Senate Square, The Water-Colour, 1927). In 1904-17, he was an initiator and permanent head of the New Society of Artists. He taught at the Academy of Arts (in 1903-07, was an assistant at the workshop of Repin in 1907-18, and in 1920-22 he was in charge of the workshop; from 1907 he was a professor, from 1911, he was a full member of the Academy of Arts, from 1915 he was a member of the Council of the Academy of Arts). From 1920 to 1930, he lived in Moscow. In 1933-34 he worked at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. He proved himself an outstanding teaching-innovator, training many talented artists (B. D. Grigoryev, P. A. Shillingovsky, D. A. Shmarinov, V. I. Shukhaev, A. E. Yakovlev et al.).
Works: About Art: Memoirs, Articles, Letters, Moscow, 1960.
References: Подобедова О. И. Дмитрий Николаевич Кардовский. М., 1957.
O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin.
