Kamenev Valerian Konstantinovich (1822 – 14/12/1874) – Academy of Art, was born in 1822 in Novgorod province, died on Dec. 14, 1874 in Gatchina. A nobleman by birth, a graduate of the Novgorod school, he did not finish his studies and enrolled in 1838 to serve in the local criminal court, then moved to the provincial office, and in 1841 ranked the Department of destiny and from 1845 was assistant chief in The specific office.
Feeling a long affinity for drawing and particularly to landscape painting, he was on the relocation to St. Petersburg, began to attend classes of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1848 a few landscapes before they were awarded the title of neklassnogo artist. Then in 1850 the Governing Senate, the Department of Heraldry, and in 1857 in the Department of the Ministry of Justice, Kamenev, constructed in the same year, an academician of the "View Golodai Island near St. Petersburg, soon parting with bureaucratic careers, and After traveling with an artistic view on Europe to take only the teaching of drawing in various educational institutions: the Naval College (1858-1864 Gg.), the Engineering and Artillery Academy in St. Petersburg seventh gymnasium (from 1862), in Gatchina orphanhood Institute ( 1869-1886 Gg.) and in Gatchina girls' school.
His landscapes were devoted primarily species in Finland (Helsinki, waterfalls and Kivach Kyuro) Islands Petersburg (Petrovsky, Krestovsky, starved), and in general the capital environs (Lahti, Izhora, Gatchina), and finally Switzerland (Rozenbau Glacier, Lake Geneva, the canton of Glarus) In addition, he painted portraits of distinguished person for various institutions and individuals (Emperor Paul I, Empress Maria Feodorovna, Empress Maria Alexandrovna, Prince Peter of Oldenburg), image (for the Church Life Guards regiment Kirasirsky), made several engravings strong vodka . "Biography. Information about the members of the Academy and all the artists who died in the years 1873-1875." – When record Acad. Khudozhestvennaya. for 1874-1875, the "; Olonets. lips. knowledge." 1875, № 2, "Pointers Academ. Exhibition" 1846, 1850-1853, 1857-1859, 1861-1864, 1867, 1870-1873 years.; Reports Acad. Xudozhestv, 1857-1867 and 1870-1871. NS