Volnukhin was born at 1859 in
Moscow, in the family of a merchant. Studied at the Moscow school of painting, sculpture and architecture (MUZHVZ, 1873-1881 and 1883-1886), and also at the St. Petersburg Academy of arts (1882). He lived in Moscow. Among Volnukhin's students: •
Anna Golubkina (1889-1890) •
Sergey Konenkov (1892-1896) •
Nikolay Andreyev (1892-1901) •
Alexander Matveyev (1899-1902) •
Natalia Goncharova (1901-1904) •
Stepan Erzia (1902-1906) • Aleksei Babichev (1907-1912) •
Boris Korolev (circa 1910) •
Isaac Itkind (1912-1913) •
Arkady Plastov (1914-1917) Notable among his own work is the 1909 monument to
Ivan Fyodorov in Moscow (with architect
Ivan Mashkov.) Volnukhin's papers are held at the
Tretyakov Gallery. == References ==