Trutovskiy (circle of) Konstantin Aleksandrovich

Russian genre painter. He is known as the author of the first famous portrait of F. M. Dostoevsky. He illustrated the works of M. Y. Lermontov, N. V. Gogol, and I. A. Krylov. He was an Academician of the Imperial Academy of arts, a member of the Royal Belgian society of watercolorists. Trutovsky's works are kept in the collections of the state Tretyakov gallery, the State Russian Museum, the state Museum of fine arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Republican art Museum named after TS.s. Sampilov, and private collections in Russia and abroad.