Vasily Semenovich Sadovnikov was born in 1800 in
Saint Petersburg. Vasily's brother, Pyotr Sadovnikov, was the architect of the
Stroganov and
Golitsyn families. He started his professional training with
Andrey Voronikhin, subsequently became a Member of
Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (1849). He died in 1879 in Saint Petersburg and was buried at Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery (now abolished). == See also ==