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1878–1911 · Luogo di lavoro

Moscow

early 1892

Wins the competition for “Alexander III and His Family”

The nobility of Kharkov, wishing to commemorate the miraculous escape of the imperial family in the 1888 train crash at Borki station, announced a competition for a painting of Alexander III and his family. Serov and Korovin won it with a sketch; the preliminary portraits for the canvas had to be painted from photographs.

1894

Elected a member of the Peredvizhniki

In 1894 Serov was elected a member of the Peredvizhniki, to which he belonged until 1900; his portrait of S. A. Tolstaya and the landscape “In the Crimea” were shown at their 22nd exhibition.

August – September 1894

Through the Russian North with Korovin

Having finished and presented “Alexander III and His Family”, Serov spent two months, until the end of September 1894, travelling through the Russian North with Konstantin Korovin and painted a great many studies.

early 1896

A commission for a watercolour of the coronation of Nicholas II

In early 1896 Serov received a lucrative commission for the watercolour “The Anointing of the Emperor” for the art album of the coronation of Nicholas II; it gave him the right to attend the coronation on 26 May in the Dormition Cathedral, and the work was due by 1 May 1897.

1896

His first exhibition abroad, in Munich

Serov’s works were shown abroad for the first time, at a private exhibition in Munich (the Secession); at the end of the year he received invitations to take part in exhibitions in Munich, Stockholm and Copenhagen.