Piotr Buchkin [SEP] place of death
, Russian Empire. In 1891 his family moved to the city of Uglich on the Volga River. First drawing lessons future artist had received from local icon painters.
In 1899 Piotr Buchkin comes to Saint Petersburg. He engaged in School of Technical Drawing of Baron Alexander von Stieglitz, where studied of Nikolai Koshelev.
In 1904 Piotr Buchkin entered the Higher Art School at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied of Vasiliy Mate and Vasily Savinsky. In 1912 he graduated from the Higher Art School at the Imperial
. From 1921 to early 1930 he worked as head of the technical department of the Publishing house "Rainbow" in Leningrad. In 1930–1936 years Piotr Buchkin also worked as an illustrator in publishing of Leningrad and Moscow.
In 1932 Piotr Buchkin become one of the founders of the Leningrad Union of Artists. In the years of 1936–1940 Buchkin taught at the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture as a professor of drawing (1937). In postwar years Piotr Buchkin taught at the Vera Mukhina Art and Industry Higher School,