Khariton Platonov

Khariton Platonov
Харитон Платонов
Born	1842 Yaroslavl Governorate
Died	September 18, 1907(1907-09-18) (aged 64–65) Kiev
Education	Member Academy of Arts (1893)
Alma mater	Imperial Academy of Arts (1870)
Known for	Painting
Style	Academism
Movement	Peredvizhniki

Khariton Platonovich Platonov (Russian: Харитон Платонович Платонов; 1842 – 18 September 1907) was a Russian genre painter and art professor who spent most of his career in Kiev. A majority of his works feature young women as their subjects.

He was born to a peasant family. From 1859 to 1870, he attended the Imperial Academy of Arts where he was awarded silver medals for "success in drawing" in 1862, 1863 and 1867.^[1] Upon graduating, he was given the title of "Artist", third degree, and became a lecturer at a district school in Tsarskoye Selo.^[1] After presenting two works at the Academy's exhibition in 1872, he was promoted to Artist, second degree.

In 1878, for his painting "Bulgarian Boy", he received a gold medal from the Academy's council. In 1883, he became an Artist of the first degree and, in 1893 was named an "Academician".^[2] In 1889, his painting "The Little Jewish Girl" was purchased by Finance Minister Ivan Vyshnegradsky

After 1877, he was a resident of Kiev, where he taught at the Kiev Drawing School; founded in 1875 by Nikolay Murashko. From 1884 to 1889, he worked on the mural restoration project at St. Cyril's Church, under the direction of Mikhail Vrubel.^[1] In 1901, he helped reorganize the drawing school and broaden its curriculum to become the "Kiev Art School". Among his most prominent students were Mykola Pymonenko, Mykola Burachek and Mykhailo Zhuk [uk].

He had major showings at the 31st and 32nd exhibitions of the Peredvizhniki and exhibited widely throughout Russia.^[3]

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  Spilled milk (1876)
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  Boy shooting a bow (1878)
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  The little baby-sitter (1880)
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  Naymichka (1886)
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  Berry sellers (1888)
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  Oksana (1888)

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