Ivan Vladimirov

• Born in 1869 in Vilnius, Russia (present-day Lithuania)

• Mother was a British painter, Father was a Russian intellectual

• Raised in Russia and Western Europe

• Trained as a painter at the Imperial Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia

• Worked as a battle artist and sold his art to Russian and British newspapers

• Painted scene of live during the 6 years of Civil War

• Sold 37 of these painting to Frank Golder, a Russian-born historical from the US

• Golder bought the art for Hoover’s collection

  1. Hoover opposed the Russian Revolution and Soviet rule

• What can Ivan Vladimirov’s paintings tell us about what life was like in Russia during its civil war?