Konstantin Trutovsky (1826–1893) was a genre painter, illustrator of works by Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Krylov, the author of paintings devoted to life in Rus, Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts, a member of the Royal Belgian Society of Watercolorists. He is the author of the first known portrait of Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Having received his elementary education at one of the private educational institutions of Kharkov, in 1839, he was brought to St. Petersburg and placed to the Nikolaev Engineering School. Having completed the course at this institution and its officer classes in 1845, he was retained there as a tutor and began to attend diligently classes at the Imperial Academy of Arts. In 1856, the Academy of Arts awarded him the title of free artist. In 1861, he was awarded the title of Academician of the Imperial Academy of Arts for his painting Round Dance in the Kursk Governorate. In later years, this paining was exhibited with great success at the World Exhibition in London. From 1871 to 1881, he was an inspector of the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, and afterwards again lived and worked in his estate.
Konstantin Trutovsky created many paintings, watercolors and pencil drawings. In addition to the scenes of common people's life, he featured types and manners of small landowners, reflecting in these images his keen observation, wit and not infrequently a poetic feeling.
The postage stamp provides a portrait of Konstantin Trutovsky (Insitute of Russian Literature of the RAS); the margins of the souvenir sheet feature the painting Round Dance in the Kursk Governorate, 1860 (State Tretyakov Gallery).
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