Boris Alexandrovich Fogel was born on 18 January 1872 in
Buynaksk on
North Caucasus. His father, a career military colonel, had spent most of his life involved in campaigns for the conquest of the
Caucasus. His mother, née Olga Flovitskaya, was a close relative of the artist
Konstantin Flavitsky. In 1880, after the death of his father, Boris moved with his mother to
Tbilisi. While studying in high school, he engaged in drawing at the private studio of A. Zakharov. In 1891 Fogel moved to Moscow, where he joined the medical faculty at
Moscow University. Concomitantly he continued his studies in painting, additionally benefiting from the advice of known artists
Vasily Polenov,
Vladimir Makovsky,
Konstantin Korovin, and
Sergei Korovin. He was then, for about a year, engaged in the private studio of
Leonid Pasternak. In 1896 Fogel lived and studied in Paris. After returning to
Saint Petersburg, Fogel joined the
Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under the tutelage of
Ilya Repin and P. O. Kovalevsky. In 1902 he graduated as an artist of painting, his graduate work named «An Evening». From 1934 until his death Fogel taught at the
Repin Institute of Arts. He was a member of the
Leningrad Union of Artists. ==See also==