Mina Lukich Kolokolnikov was a Russia

Russia

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n painter

Painting

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 and teacher.

Kolokolnikov was born in the village of Kravotyn in Tver

Tver

Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...

 gubernia. He was a serf

SERF

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 of the Pafnutievo-Borovsky Monastery, and learnt the art of portrait painting from Ivan Nikitich Nikitin

Ivan Nikitich Nikitin

Ivan Nikitich Nikitin was a Russian painter, an author of portraits and battle paintings.-Biography:Ivan Nikitin was born in Moscow to a family of an Orthodox priest. He received his first artistic lessons from a Dutch artist Schwonbek at the engraving shop of the Kremlin Armoury. In 1711 the...

 and Louis Caravaque

Louis Caravaque

Louis Caravaque, a French portrait painter, was a native of Gascony. He went to Russia, and in 1716 painted at Astrakhan the portrait of Peter the Great, which has been engraved by Massard and by Langlois. He again painted the Czar in 1723, and subsequently the Empresses Anne and Elizabeth. He died...

; he also studied icon

Icon

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 painting with Vasily Vasilevsky.

He is known to have assisted in the decoration of the palace at Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo

Tsarskoye Selo is the town containing a former Russian residence of the imperial family and visiting nobility, located south from the center of St. Petersburg. It is now part of the town of Pushkin and of the World Heritage Site Saint Petersburg and Related Groups of Monuments.-History:In...

, and to have lived for a time in St. Petersburg, where one of his pupils was Trifon Anisimov. One of his portraits is in the Tver

Tver

Tver is a city and the administrative center of Tver Oblast, Russia. Population: 403,726 ; 408,903 ;...

 Regional Picture Gallery. He worked in the studio of Alexei Antropov

Alexei Antropov

Alexei Petrovich Antropov was a Russian painter active primarily in St. Petersburg, where he was born and died. He also worked in Moscow and frescoed churches in Kiev. His preferred medium was oil, but he also painted miniatures and icons....

; consequently, it is often difficult to tell Kolokolnikov's works from Antropov's, as both have very similar technique.

Kolokolnikov's brothers Ivan and Fedot were also painters.