Arkhip Kuindzhi was born in January 1842 in Mariupol but spent his youth in the city of Taganrog. His Christian name is a Russian rendering of the Greek. (Master of horses). His surname came from his grandfather's vocational nick name meaning
"goldsmith" in crimean Tartar. He grew up in a poor family, His father was a Pontic Greek Shoemaker, Ivan khristoforovich Kuindzhi. He was six year old when he lost his parents. So he was forced to make a living working at a church building site, grazing domestic animals. and working at the corn merchant shop. He received the rudiments of an education from a Greek friend of the family who was a teacher and then went to the local school.
In 1872 the artist left St Petersburg Academy of Arts and worked as a freelancer. The painting on the Valaam island was the first art work which Pavel Tretyakov acquired for his art gallary. In 1873 he exhibited his painting "The Snow "which received the bronz medal at the International Art Exhibition
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