Yartsev Grigory (1858-1918) - landscape painter, architect and traveler. He received his initial art education in the Sunday classes of the Stroganov School. In 1877-1882 he studied at the natural faculty of Moscow University. In the early 1880s, he studied painting under the guidance of Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov and Alexander Alexandrovich Kiselyov. Since 1885, Yartsev began to take part in the activities of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions. In 1900, his paintings were exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris and were awarded a silver medal.
He was a member of the Russian Technical Society and the construction commission for the construction of the Shanyavsky University. Yartsev Grigory Fedorovich was one of those domestic artists who developed the amazing phenomenon of our fine art of the last decades of the 19th century - Russian landscape painting - in breadth. The painter's work is directly related to his travels, which he often made on the instructions of the Russian Geographical Society: he traveled through Siberia, Altai, spent a lot of time in the Caucasus, visited other Russian provinces and regions, traveled around France. The paintings of the artist Yartsevavidy are filled with light, his views of southern nature, southern villages were popular with the public, who got acquainted with them at the expositions of the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions, in which the young landscape painter began to participate from 1885. Yartsev's works are in many museums and art galleries in Russian cities, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow.