Mikhail Sazhin (painter)

Sazhin studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg from 1834 until 1840, and became a member of the academy in 1855. In 1844, he moved to Ukraine, and in Kyiv in 1846 he began working with Taras Shevchenko, whom he probably knew from Saint Petersburg.^[1]

Some of his works are kept in the Shevchenko House Museum [uk] in Kyiv where they worked together.^[2] Others are held in the National Art Museum of Ukraine,^[3] in the Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg, and in the National Museum in Warsaw. A street in Kyiv was named in his honour in 1962.^[3]

His works are essentially landscapes mixing the urban and rural in a picturesque perspective. They offer interesting and unexpected views of the city of Kyiv and the neighbourhood of Podil from the surrounding hills before the widespread adoption of photography.

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  Kyiv from the Dnieper.
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  Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
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  View from Saint Vladimir hill, Kyiv.
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  Golden Gate, Kyiv, 1846.
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  Irynynska Cathedral [uk] with Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv, in the background, 1846.
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  View of Podil from Shchekavitsya [uk], Kiev.
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  Panorama of Podil.
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  Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.
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  The Square of Contracts in Podil with the belltowers of the Ascension Convent in the background.
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  View of Kurenivka. The bell towers of St. Cyril's Monastery, Kyiv are on the right.
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  View of Kurenivka.
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  View of Kiev and Podil from the Dnieper.
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  View of Podil.
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  View of Kyiv from the imperial garden.
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  View of Kyiv.