Overview
(1863) by Kuzma Minin (1861) Mikhail Ivanovich Peskov (; 1834, in Irkutsk – 13 August 1864, in Yalta) was a history and genre painter and lithographer from the Russian Empire.
Biography
He was born into a military family, stationed in Siberia. From 1850 to 1855, he worked in the office of the Irkutsk Provincial Government. He left to enroll in the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under Alexey Tarasovich Markov. In 1859 and 1860, his work received several silver medals. In 1864, on his doctor's advice, he went to the Crimea, seeking a cure for his tuberculosis. His friends at the Artel took up a collection and sold artwork to help support his recovery there, but he died, aged only thirty.
Further reading
* A. N. Turunov, Художник-реалист М.И. Песков (1834–1864), Irkutsk Regional Publishing (1938) * V. Tarasov, "Обращение к истории" (Appeal to History) in Kultura, October 6, 2002 *