Benkov Pavel Petrovich

Soviet artist, painter, graphic artist, theater decorator, teacher. Honored Art Worker of the Uzbek SSR, teacher at the Kazan Art School and the Samarkand Art School. He studied at the Higher Art School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg (1901–1909, with a break). In 1905-1906 he visited Paris, studied at the R. Julien Academy. From 1930 he lived in Samarkand. One of the founders of Uzbek Soviet painting. He painted portraits, landscapes, genre paintings. In the 1910s-1920s he designed performances in the theaters of Kazan, Irkutsk, and Omsk. Since 1903 - participant of exhibitions. The artist's works are represented in many museum collections, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Museum of Oriental Art, the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan in Kazan, the Museum of Art of Uzbekistan in Tashkent and others.