Russian painter, part of a family of artists, son of Vladimir Makovsky. From 1894-95 he studied at the Imperial Academy of Arts at St. Petersburg. He also studied in Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. During the 1890's he was part of the Wanderers Movement from 1902, having begun exhibiting with them since 1899. The Wanderers (Itinerants) were a group of Russian realist artists who in protest at academic restrictions formed an artists' cooperative; it evolved into the Society for Travelling Art Exhibitions in 1870. Makovsky would continue exhibiting with the Wanderers until 1922, during which time he began teaching at the Imperial Academy of Arts (in 1898) and there became a full academic (in 1911). In 1924, he began exhibiting with another artists' group, the Association of Artists of Revolutionary Russia (AKhRR), but died shortly thereafter. //