Night on the Baltic Sea

Mykola Nykanorovych Dubovskyi was a painter of the Russian landscape school of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a prominent public figure, and a member and later one of the leaders of the “Society of Traveling Art Exhibitions”. He was an academician of Landscape Painting (1898) and a full member of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (1908), a teacher (1909) and head professor of the landscape workshop of the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Arts (1911). Born in Novocherkassk on December 5, 1859 in the family of a military foreman of the Don Army, in 1870, Dubovskyi became a cadet of the Vladimir Kyiv Military Gymnasium. In 1877, he entered the Imperial Academy of Arts, where he studied under M.K. Klodt. In 1881, he left the Academy and devoted himself entirely to landscape painting. Dubovskyi died on February 28, 1918 in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). His paintings are kept in museum collections in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, and Estonia. Some of his paintings are kept in the Dnipro, Poltava and Mykolaiv art museums, and in the Feodosia Art Gallery (in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea).