Sergei Volnukhin

Sergei Mikhailovich Volnukhin (1859–1921) was a Russian sculptor, best known for his instruction to a generation of Russian artists at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, teaching alongside Prince Paolo Troubetzkoy.

Monument to Ivan Fyodorov, 1909

External image
Sergey Malyutin, Sergei Volnukhin, 1914, oil on canvas; Dogadin Gallery (ru), Astrakhan

Biography

Volnukhin was born at 1859 in Moscow, in the family of a merchant. Studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture (MUZHVZ, 1873-1881 and 1883-1886), and also at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1882). He lived in Moscow. ^[1]

Among Volnukhin's students:^[2]

• Anna Golubkina (1889-1890)
• Sergey Konenkov (1892-1896)
• Nikolay Andreyev (1892-1901)
• Alexander Matveyev (1899-1902)
• Natalia Goncharova (1901-1904)
• Stepan Erzia (1902-1906)
• Aleksei Babichev (1907-1912)
• Boris Korolev (circa 1910)
• Isaac Itkind (1912-1913)
• Arkady Plastov (1914-1917)

Notable among his own work is the 1909 monument to Ivan Fyodorov in Moscow (with architect Ivan Mashkov.) Volnukhin's papers are held at the Tretyakov Gallery.