Иван Кириллович Дряпаченко

Thanks to Ukrainian painter and graphic artist Ivan Dryapachenko (Іван Дряпаченко). Ivan Dryapachenko was born on 16 August,1881, in a village Vasilievka (five miles from Kozel’schyna). The village was founded in the middle of XVIII century by Kapnists. As early as age 13, thanks to the Kapnists a talented country boy began to study at the famous Kyiv Drawing School (1894-96.) Led by artist and educator N.I. Murashko. At school, apart I.K. Dryapachenko were educated N.K. Pimonenko and A.A. Murashko, S. P. Kostenko, G.K. Dyadchenko and L. S. Izhakevich and G.P. Svetlitsky, M. I. Zhuk, V.D. Zamirailo, A.A. Kurennoy, F.S. Krasitsky. After Kiev, Ivan Dryapachenko continued his education at the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and then in the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts where his teacher was Ilya Repin who remembered Ivan when he had gone to Ukraine to grow information for his “Zaporozhtsi are writing a letter to the Sultan“. He was famous as a portrait artist.