Artists / Penza Art College

Penza Art College was founded in 1898 by Penza governor N. Seliverstov and his friend P.Semenov-Tanshanski. First and most important director of this Institute was artist-academic Konstantin Savitsky which name college has now. Savitsky organised the study process following the system of art education of St-Petersburg academy of art. Teachers and stuedents of this college were such well known russian artists like: Gorushkin-Sorokopudov, V.Tatlin, A.Lentulov, V.Volkov, P.Korovin, H.Grandkovsky, K.Klodt, K.Zhukov, O.Kaiser and many others.