GORELOV GAVRIIL NIKITICH (1880-1966)
Oil painter. Studied at the Higher Art School of the Academy of Arts in St.Petersburg (1903-11) under I.Ye.Repin, F.A.Rubo and P.P.Chistyakov. History and portrait painter. Pensioner of the Academy of Arts in Italy, France and Germany (1911-12). From 1904 - participant of exhibitions of the Academy of Arts, the Society of Itinerant Art Exhibitions, the Society of South Russian Artists, etc. Member of the Society of South Russian Artists (from 1912) and the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (1924-29). State prize laureat, active member of the USSR Academy of Arts , Honored Art worker of the RSFSR. Works are presented in many museums and private collections of Russia.