Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov, as he is spelled in German, was born in Moscow in 1791 and must have been considered a child prodigy at a very early age - he was accepted at the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg as early as 1800, when he was nine years old!
Sokolov remained at the academy for nine years. While cannonballs flew around the rest of Europe, half a dozen states took up arms against Napoleon in ever-changing coalitions and were repeatedly defeated, Sokolov delivered his journeyman's piece in 1809 with "Andromache mourns Hector", which earned him the Small Gold Medal of the Academy. However, he did not achieve his great goal, the Grand Gold Medal and, connected with it, a scholarship for studies abroad (Sokolov wanted to go to Italy), even at his second attempt.
So Sokolov stayed in the country and nourished himself honestly: after the final victory over Napoleon, especially through the "Patriotic War" of 1812, the empire of the young Tsar Alexander saw itself as a blossoming empire, whose state-bearing classes were bursting with self-confidence. With his portraits, Sokolov served their need for recognition - he managed to capture on canvas almost the entire social and political prominence of the empire. Even Tsar Nicholas I had him come to the court in 1821 to paint portraits of the then three-year-old heir to the throne, subsequently Tsar Alexander II - Sokolov's clients also included: Alexander Pushkin, enfant terrible of his time and today the national poet of Russia, as well as his mentor and tutor to the heir to the throne, Vasily Zhukovsky. Also Elena Pavlovna Bakunina, the daughter of the governor of the capital and cousin of the revolutionary Mikhail Bakunin, who had herself portrayed three times in different phases of her life - and who made a name for herself as "Russia's first nurse" long after Sokolov's death in 1848, during the Crimean War. She was not the only client who had herself portrayed by Sokolov several times,
This illustrious influx for a single artist is ultimately explained by his painting style: For Sokolov was the pioneer of watercolor painting in Russia; he had already discovered the rather light watercolors with and without emulsion for himself at the Academy, which gave his portraits a light, buoyant note; some of his paintings seem almost as if they were softly breathed in comparison to the "thick oil hams" of the Classical School.
When Pyotr Sokolov died in 1848, he left not only an oeuvre of 500 paintings, but also three sons (Pyotr, Pavel and Alexander), who in turn were to achieve fame as painters and/or illustrators.
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_Mikhail_Vielgorsky_(1788-1856)_(Portrait_-_(MeisterDrucke-1313666).jpg "Portrait of the Decembrist Mikhail Vielgorsky (1788-1856) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Grand Princesses Olga and Alexandra in Fancy Dress, 1830s by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Poet Prince Pyotr A. Vyazemsky by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_(1792-1878)_p_-_(MeisterDrucke-1325012).jpg "Portrait of the Poet Prince Pyotr A. Vyazemsky by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_historien_et_homme_dEtat_russe_Litho_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320860).jpg "Portrait of Alexander Turgenev (1784-1846), Historian and Russian Statesman by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Maria Nikolayevna Volkonskaya 1805-1863 with son Nikolay, 1826 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Crown Prince Alexander Nikolayevich and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna as Children, 1825 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Leonty Vasilievich Dubelt, Chief of Staff of the Corps of Gendarmes by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_Oeuvre_de_Pyotr_(_-_(MeisterDrucke-1314019).jpg "Retreat by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Natalia Kirillovna Zagryazyskaya née Razumovskaya by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_poete_russe_(Portrait_of_the_poet_Vasi_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323377).jpg "Portrait of the Poet Vasily Zhukovsky by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Varvara Sergeyevna Golitsyna by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Composer and Guitarist Andrei Osipovich Sychra by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Count Matvey Yuryevich Vilyegorsky by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Natalia Kirillovna Zagryazhskaya (née Countess Razumovskaya) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Prince Alexander Fyodorovich Golitsyn 1796-1864, 1838 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "At Work. In the Pavel Nashchokin House, 1824 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Empress Alexandra and Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Count Sergey Vasilyevich Trubetskoy by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the poetess Yevdokiya Rostopchina by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Illustration for the Short Story Lgov by Ivan Turgenev from the Collection A Sportsman")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1122903).jpg "Portrait of Countess Sofia Stepanovna Shcherbatova (1798-1885) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Alexey Nikitich Peshchurov by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Singer and Composer Michelle Pauline Viardot-García by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Sergey Ivanovich Turgenev by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Maximilian de Beauharnais, 3rd Duke of Leuchtenberg (1817-1852) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Poet Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Praskovia Nikolaevna Ryumina 1821-1897, 1847 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_(Charlotte_de_Prusse_-_(MeisterDrucke-1313429).jpg "Portrait of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Illustration for the short story Lebedyan by Ivan Turgenev from the collection A Sportsman")
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_Fyodorovich_So_-_(MeisterDrucke-1314432).jpg "Portrait of Countess Glafira de Balmen by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the composer Count Matvey Vielgorsky by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Elizabeth Mikhailovna Khitrovo by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_(Vasily_Zhukovsky)_-_Oeuvre_de_P_-_(MeisterDrucke-1324426).jpg "Portrait of the poet Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852) - Work by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov (1791-1848) watercolor on paper (17x14 cm), circa 1820 - A. Pushkin Memorial Museum, Saint Petersburg (Russia) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Nadezhda Ivanovna Golitsyna, née Countess Kutaysova by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "At work in the Pavel Nashchokin House by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna with Daughter Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Russia by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Alexandra Alexandrovna Golitsyna, Mid 1820s by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_Nikita_Muravyov_(1797-1843)_(Portrait_of_-_(MeisterDrucke-1376889).jpg "Portrait of the Decembrist Nikita Muravyov by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_Venevitinov_(1805-1827)_Oeuvre_de_Pyotr_(Piot_-_(MeisterDrucke-1323317).jpg "Portrait of the Poet Dmitri Venevitinov by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Yelena Fyodorovna Ryumina 1800-1874, 1846 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Princess Helen Biron von Curland, née Meshcherskaya 1818-1843, 1830s by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_(Moscou)_(At_Work_In_the_P_-_(MeisterDrucke-1318712).jpg "At Work. In the Pavel Nashchokin House. by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of A. N. Venevitinova by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_Fyodorovich_Sokolov_(Pierre_-_(MeisterDrucke-1318859).jpg "Portrait of the Lanskoy children by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Baroness Iuliania Ivanovna Klodt von Jürgensburg by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Crown Prince Alexander Nikolayevich by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of the Lanskoy Children, 1839 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_adapte_dapres_N_-_(MeisterDrucke-1320589).jpg "Esmeralda by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_(178_-_(MeisterDrucke-1318188).jpg "Portrait of the Count K. R. Nesselrode by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Portrait of Countess Maria N. Volkonskaya with son Nikolay by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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.jpg "Interior of the Drawing Room in the House of Baron Stieglitz in St. Petersburg, 1841 by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-696626).jpg "Alexandra Smirnoff née Rosset (Rossetti) by Pyotr Fyodorovich Sokolov")
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