Nikolai Yaroshenko

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The prisoner, 1878

Yaroshenko's artwork on the cover of Crime and Punishment

Nikolai Alexandrovich Yaroshenko (Николай Александрович Ярошенко; 1846 - 1898) was a Russian painter.

The son of a Russian army officer, he chose a military career, but also studied art at Kramskoi's drawing school and at the Academy of Fine Arts. In 1876 he became a leading member of a group of Russian painters called the Peredvizhniki. Yaroshenko retired as a Major General in 1892.

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