Sergey Vasilyevich Ivanov was born in a town of Ruza on June 16, 1864 and died on August 16, 1910 at aged of 46 in Svistukh, Dmitrovsky District. His father was a tax collector for the Customs Service. He came from the family of nobles of the Voronezh oblast.
At the age of 11 Sergey entered the Konstantinovsky Institute of Land Surveying. The Institute was not to his liking and on the advice of P. P. Sinebatov, a colleague of his fathers in the autumn of 1878 he started studying at the Moscow School of Art, Sculpture and Architecture as an external student.
From 1882 to 1884, Ivanov studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts. Then, he left the Academy and moved to Moscow.
In 1884, Sergey returned to the Moscow School of Art, Sculpture and Architecture and graduated from it in 1885.
Sergey Ivanov taught in the Moscow Painting, Sculpture and Architecture School (1900–1910) and the Stroganov Higher Arts and Crafts College (from 1899).
Sergey Ivanov (1864-1910)
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