Vikentii Trofimov [SEP] educated at
in 1911 the famous Fridtjof Nansen had been invited to investigate the river basin of the Ob River, and Pavel Trofimov was among the sponsors of this project. There were ten children in Trofimov's family, and every one became a well-educated person.
Graduation from Stroganovka.
In 1899 Vikentii Trofimov graduated from Stroganov Central College of Technical Drawing (now Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, informally named Stroganovka). He and his friend Ignaty Nivinsky were both recommended for the gold medal. As there was
art exhibition of Vikentii Trofimov was presented by Shishkin Gallery.
Works by Vikentii Trofimov are known and claimed as well abroad. In 2007 Christie's sold one of his early paintings, "The Descent in Voronezsh," and in 2008 another of his pictures, "Kazakhs with a horse at a crossing," was sold through Christie's.