Nikanor Grigorevic Tschernezoff and his older brother Grigori Tschernezoff are amongst the earliest landscape painters from Russia. Several areas of the country had never been painted before and were unknown to most of the city's residents which is why the brothers Tschernezoff had great success. Pushkin for example owned a painting by Nikanor that hung in his study.

Nikanor himself got a scholarship for the academy in St. Petersburg in 1823 where he studied under Maxim Nikiforovich Vorobiev (1787-1855). Together with his brother he finished the academy in 1827, both leaving with gold medals. Grigory was engaged as a court painter, whereas Nikanor lived in the Crimea from 1833 to 1836 wher...