GRIGOROVITCH, gre-go-revia, Dmitri Vasilyevitch, Russian artist, novelist and his torian of art: b. 19 March 1822, at the village of Nik6lskoye in the province of Simbrisk, on the Volga; d. 1900. His father was a retired hussar of the Great Katharine's time. His mother was the daughter of a French emigré, named De Barmont. When the boy was seven years old, his parents went to the father's es tate at Dumbino, not far from the city of Tula. After the custom of landed proprietors his edu cation was entrusted to governesses and tutors, until he was ten, when he was sent by his mother, then a widow, to Moscow, where he at tended a boarding-school kept by an Italian of artistic tendencies. There he learned several foreign languages. When he was 14 he went to Petersburg and studied with the famous. engi neer, Kostomarof, who fitted him to enter the MikhailOvsky Engineering School. But his heart was not in that career and after.a rather unhappy year he entered the Art Academy where he was instructed by the great artist, Tamarinsky. His first inclination to painting had been stimulated when he was a child by his discovery among his mother's possessions of a portfolio of drawings and he had early mani fested a considerable talent for sketching. He made good progress and when he had finished his studies he was engaged to furnish various articles for Leontof's (Encyclopedic He also contributed to Plyeshar's 'One Hun dred and One Tales and Forty-Forties of Anec dotes) a number of translations and original stories. He made the acquaintance of Nikolai
Ivinovitch Gryetch and the famouspoet, Ne krisof, both contributors to Krayevsky'sLiterary Gazette and he contributed to that brilliant pe riodical a number of short stories. In 1846 he left Petersburg and settled in the country, where he continued his literary activities, contributing to the Annals of the Fatherland (Otyitchesven nuiya Zapiski) and to the Contemporary (Sovreminnik). In these appeared his best known stories (Anton Goryemka,' (The Land less ((Bobuil'), 'Brief Riches' (cNyedolgoye Bogatsvo)), (Four Years) ((Chetuirye Vremenyi goda>), (The Fisher men' ('Ruilialci)), (The Emigrants) ((Peres and others. In 1M8, while at the very height of his successful literary career he was suddenly called to the Ministry of the Marine and spent a year in the Mediterranean on the cruiser Retvisdn. He utilized this ex perience in a series of sketches published under the title (Korabl Retvizin,) with a subtitle, (A Year in Europe and in European Waters.' This practically closed his literary activities. In 1863 he became secretary of the Society for the Encouragement of Artists and for many years he devoted his energies to this worthy object. His works of fiction make a series of eight vol umes. Several others are devoted to his arti cles on the and Theory of