Born in the town of Yelets, Tambov Province, and having lost his father at four, Vasily Nikitich Meshkov managed, thanks to the participation of good people, to prepare and enter the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in 1882.
Among his teachers in fine art, and in life, the artist singles out V. D. Polenov, who not only skillfully developed the ability of subtle color perception in him, but also helped him find his place in the crucial years of the formation of creative nature. V. N. Meshkov began his independent steps in painting by landscape painter and genre painter, with time he paid more and more attention to portrait.
After graduating from the Moscow School of Painting, Art and Culture, and a one-year study at the Academy of Arts, the painter is actively involved in the exhibition and artistic life of Moscow. He was one of the organizers of the Moscow Association of Artists, opened with him a school of drawing and painting, participated in the organization of exhibitions of the Moscow Association in the cities of Russia. From trips abroad made his admiration for Michelangelo and Velasquez.
Finally, in the pre-revolutionary years, he worked hard to improve his mastery of the portrait painter. In Soviet times, V. N. Meshkov created portraits of the leaders of the party and the state, heroes of war and labor, famous cultural figures in the country. For VN Meshkov, the “symbol of faith” was Russian painting rich in remarkable realistic traditions.
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