Early Life, Family and Artistic Training The story of Pyotr Konchalovsky begins in the village of Slavianka, located within the Kharkov Governorate of the Russian Empire. Born on 21 February 1876, he entered a world where the boundaries of art and intellect were already being drawn by those around him. His father, Pyotr Petrovich Konchalovsky, was a man of letters and a publisher of art, a profession that ensured the household was steeped in the visual and literary currents of the era. This environment provided a natural, if quiet, introduction to the life of a creator, as the family eventua…