"Mykola Ivanovych Murashko ( Ukrainian: Микола Іванович Мурашко, romanized: Mykola Ivanovych Murashko; 20 May 1844 in Glukhov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire – 22 September 1909 in Bucha, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian painter, art teacher, art critic and art historian, who belonged to promoters of the Russian movement of Peredvizhniki; he was a student and successor of painter Adrian Prakhov at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, the founder and the first director of his own private drawing school in Kyiv and memoirist.
Murashko was one of the best friends of Ukrainian painter Ilya Repin. His nephew Oleksandr Murashko was an artist and one of the first members of the National Academy of Arts of Ukraine." - (en.wikipedia.org 09.06.2024)
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