there with his widowed sisters and wrote his memoirs. He died of paralysis after several trips to the village of Sleptsovka to make funeral arrangements for another sister. Most of his church works were destroyed during the Soviet period. The current locations of all but two of the works he painted in China are unknown. In 1950, an unfinished posthumous portrait of Alexander Griboyedov was identified as his. References External links 1821 births 1893 deaths People from Kuznetsky Uyezd (Saratov Governorate) 19th-century painters from the Russian Empire Russian male painters Russian portrait painters Russian Christian missionaries Eastern Orthodox missionaries Russian expatriates in China Christian missionaries in China Recipients of the Order of Saint Stanislaus (Russian)