His house was like a Russian colony: frequent visitors included Ivan Turgenev, Ilya Yefimovich Repin, Vasily Polenov, Mark Antokolski, Vasili Vasilyevich Vereshchagin.
He studied at Saratov at Bogolyubov Art School (1891-6), then Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (1897–1904) and for a year in Paris (1905).
Alexey Pajitnov | Alexey Shchusev | Nikolay Bogolyubov | Alexey Vyzmanavin | Alexey Titarenko | Alexey Steele | Alexey Rybnikov | Alexey Maresyev | Alexey Kondrashov | Alexey Bogolyubov | Alexey Verstovsky | Alexey Venetsianov | Alexey Sergeyevich Yermolov | Alexey Sergeyevich Kiselyov | Alexey Selezniev | Alexey Maslov | Alexey Gogua | Alexey Fyodorovich Orlov | Alexey Ekimyan |
It was founded by Alexey Bogolyubov and named after his grandfather, the 18th-century revolutionary writer Alexander Radishchev.