Krestianpol P. "Seascape"

He was born in 1871 in the village of Shepel in Volhynia. In 1892 he graduated from the Volyn Theological Seminary. He continued his studies at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts as a free listener in 1895-1897, received a certificate for the right to teach painting. He settled in Simferopol. He worked as a teacher of drawing, penmanship and drawing at a real school (since 1898), a drawing teacher at the Tauride Theological Seminary (since 1900), Simferopol Theological School (since 1898) and a private women's professional school of A. A. Mashkovtseva.