Beggrow C. P. (1799-1875), Artist

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BEGGROW Carl Petrovich (1799 - 1875, St. Petersburg) lithographer and artist. He is a father of A. C. Beggrow. Studied at the Academy of Arts under M. N. Vorobyev (1818-21; a member of the Academy from 1832). In 1825, he became a lithographer at the Main Administration of Railways. He was one of the first masters of the Russian lithography. The lithographic cityscapes of St. Petersburg made for the album Views of St. Petersburg and Its Outskirts (St. Petersburg, 1821-26; published by the Artists Encouragement Fund) became his most famous work. Mikhailovsky Palace (1832, State Russian Museum), portraits of Emperor Alexander I and Emperor Nicholas I by Beggrow are among his pictorial works. He lived in the building of the Academy of Arts at 17 Universitetskaya Embankment. He was buried at Smolenskoe Lutheran Cemetery (the tomb stone has not survived).

References: Коростин А. Ф. Русская литография XIX века. М., 1953.

O. L. Leykind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Alexander I, Emperor
Beggrow Alexander Carlovich
Beggrow Carl Petrovich
Nicholas I, Emperor
Vorobyev Maxim Nikiforovich
Universitetskaya Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 17
Коростин А. Ф. Русская литография XIX века. М., 1953 Academy of Arts
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